X-Nico

10 unusual facts about Plain old telephone service


Cidco MailStation

The MailStation was designed to send and receive e-mails via a standard POTS telephone line.

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In establishing the nationwide communication network, modems with common analog telephone lines had to be used.

Flat rate

Some PC-to-telephone services, such as SkypeOut offer flat rates for national calls to landlines.

GT-Power

GT Power is a bulletin board system (BBS) and dial-up telecommunications/terminal application for the DOS family of operating systems.

Hargray

Hargray offers land line telephone service, internet, cable television and resells cellular phone service through Cricket.

Hawaiian Telcom

products = Broadband Internet services, Local wireline services, Television

Landel MailBug

It connects to a standard POTS telephone line and checks for new incoming mail or delivers outgoing mail by periodically calling into Landel's proprietary service.

Secure voice

NSA's STU-III, KY-57 and SCIP are examples of systems that operate over existing voice circuits.

SureWest

Services provided are telephone, voice over IP, DSL (15 Mbit/s/1 Mbit/s, 10 Mbit/s/768 kbit/s, 6 Mbit/s/768 kbit/s, 3 Mbit/s/768 kbit/s, 1 Mbit/s/128 kbit/s), FTTH for competitive local exchange carrier areas up to 50 Mbit/s data both ways, IPTV in HD for copper customers with a bonded DSL modem, and IPTV in HD for FTTH customers.

W0KIE

Spring 2004
POTS line digital codec units are obtained, bringing a further improvement in fidelity and reliability over the aging and ailing frequency extender


Allied Telesis

Their POTS-to-10G iMAP (integrated Multiservice Access Platform) and iMG (intelligent Multiservice Gateways), in conjunction with advanced switching, secure VPN routing solutions, enable public and private network operators and service providers of all sizes to deploy scalable, carrier-grade networks for the cost-effective delivery of packet-based voice, video and data services.

Telecomunicações de Moçambique

ADSL speeds range from 128 kbit/s to 4 Mbit/s with various data caps available as an add-on to a POTS voice service.

Videotelephony

At the dawn of the technology, videotelephony also included image phones which would exchange still images between units every few seconds over conventional POTS-type telephone lines, essentially the same as slow scan TV systems.