Fax lines to go away?
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is going to deregulate the pricing of copper wire- based telecommunications, which was historically used for:
- POTS (plain old telephone service) lines
- Fax lines connected to fax machines or fax boards of MFPs
- Will result massive rate increases in monthly phone line costs for this old technology
- Is expected that phone service companies will phase out copper wire based lines
- Feds wish to promote move to VOiP instead (however, this digital Internet based technology does not traditionally work well with analog fax boards in MFPs)
- This will dramatically increase the opportunity for MFP reps to sell:
- Cloud-based digital fax solutions