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What the POTS shutdown will mean for faxing in the healthcare industry
After a remarkable 100-year run, the FCC is officially closing the door on traditional analog copper POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service), the standard telephone infrastructure we’ve all used forever. For businesses in virtually every industry, the old-fashioned copper wires have been the default communication protocol not only for phone usage but for other services such as analog fax lines and—for healthcare providers and payers, on-premise paper fax machines. But holding on to the...
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Re: What the POTS shutdown will mean for faxing in the healthcare industry
Other than asking the client, who in most cases does not know if they have a POTS line (in a smaller business), is there another way to tell?
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Re: What the POTS shutdown will mean for faxing in the healthcare industry
Hopefully it will convince some customers to finally abandon fax altogether. Fax is the worst!