Goodbye Phone Lines!

It’s no shock that today, many communities and businesses are deciding to drop their outdated telephone lines for newer, more robust services offered through cellular or VoIP systems.

According to San Francisco Business Times, the phone company AT&T is pushing a bill in the California legislature that would allow it to phase out landlines starting in 2020 if there is an alternative, like cell phones, available to customers.

Bill sponsor and San Jose Assemblyman, Evan Low told a CBS affiliate KPIX that the bill will help the company cut costs by ending maintenance on expensive copper wires and routing stations, while making sure customers are still connected. AT&T estimates about 4.5 million users in California still have landlines, though.

“The plain old telephone system known as pots is rapidly approaching irrelevance,” said Low “We’re modernizing with the times. We liken this from going to analog to digital.”

-From Elika Access October Newsletter

Contact us for information on some of the exciting developments in phone entry access in our industry. We have several options now for communication that do not require POTS lines including Doorking, Elika, American Access Systems, Liftmaster, and Linear.