Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS)

Before cellular phone service and VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) there was POTS which stands for Plain Old Telephone Service. While VoIP and cellular phone providers are becoming more dominant, POTS is still the standard when it comes to residential and business phone services – it will not be long before POTS is completely outdated and replaced by it’s more technologically advanced counterparts.

Plain Old Telephone Service providers still provide a more reliable service than Voice Over Internet Protocol and Cellular Phone providers but as the latter become more and more reliable, POTS will slowly fizzle out and join the ranks of VCR’s and 8-Track’s in the outdated and forgotten technology bin.

Call Forwarding
Caller ID
Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA)
CNAM
Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)
Common Short Code Administration (CSCA)
Connected Call Length
Do Not Call (DNC)
DTMF
FreePBX
Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
Long Code
Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS)
Opt-In
Opt-Out
Phone RSVP System
Phone Script
Phone-In System
Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS)
Predictive Dialer
Private Branch Exchange (PBX)
Push Notification
Push-To-Repeat
Push-To-Talk
SaaS
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
Short Message Service (SMS)
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
SMS Gateway
STIR/SHAKEN
Telephone Chain
Telephone Polling
Text Message Forwarding
Text Message Marketing
Text-To-Speech (TTS)
Vanity Phone Number
Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP)

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