In a recent update on its copper retirement, AT&T offered striking evidence for why the old network is on its way out. Following last year’s California wildfires, the company said it restored wireless coverage in most affected areas within three days. However, restoring copper service took several months. More broadly, AT&T reported that wireless repairs
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As carriers move customers off copper and onto wireless replacements, the reliability of those replacements has become a question of public concern. In October 2026, federal lawmakers sent formal letters to Verizon asking the company on whether its wireless copper replacement is dependable enough for the people and systems that rely on it. They also
Copper is going dark faster than most migration plans assume. The U.S. lost 3.2 million traditional landlines this past year, a 17.6% drop, according to the FCC’s Voice Telephone Services report. Businesses still hold 8.6 million of the 15 million lines that remain, and many are affected by POTS line retirement. Many of those lines
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When designing solutions which replace copper infrastructure for a living, we continuously see this question arise; “Can wireless connectivity really be trusted with a life safety application?”, which is a fair question. The topic of pots replacement has become increasingly important as carriers retire copper infrastructure, state and local regulators have started pushing back on
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If your organization still runs voice or POTS lines from Lumen, the company that sells them has told the market, in plain language, that it is getting out of the business. What it has not told you is when. That combination, a clear intent to exit and a deliberate refusal to commit to a timeline,
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Ask any enterprise IT or facilities team what matters most in a POTS replacement rollout, and speed is usually the first answer. How quickly can lines be swapped. How fast can a site go live. Vendors compete on install timelines because it is the easiest thing to put a number on. But install speed only
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For most of the past year, copper retirement has been told as an AT&T story, and increasingly as an AT&T versus California story. That framing is now out of date. As of August 2026, the country’s major incumbent carriers are filing to discontinue legacy copper service across dozens of states at the same time, covering
No sector is more exposed to copper retirement than energy and utilities, and few are less prepared for it. A single electric, gas, or water utility can operate analog lines to thousands of locations: substations, pump stations, lift stations, well sites, storage tanks, regulator stations, and remote alarm points scattered across an entire service territory.
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Retail and grocery IT teams are facing one of the most complex infrastructure transitions in recent memory. Traditional carriers are retiring copper-based POTS lines across the country, and the FCC’s 2026 copper retirement order has given those carriers the regulatory cover to move faster than most businesses are prepared for. Each store may have anywhere
POTS replacement has been on enterprise roadmaps for years. What has changed is not the technology‚ it is the reason organizations act. Look across the last several years of copper migration projects and a clear pattern emerges. The work is the same: find the analog lines, figure out what is on them, replace them with
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