Streamlined Digital Fax Over VoIP
Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) Replacement
Replace old POTS lines with a unified, modern, and
cost-effective solution.
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Replace old POTS lines with a unified, modern, and
cost-effective solution.
Unify communications and benefit from seamless VoIP communications and cloud-based faxing in one platform.
Future-proof your business with customizable plans that scale up or down based on your unique requirements.
Eliminate the need for traditional copper line maintenance and increase profit with reduced monthly service costs.
Replacing POTS lines with newer digital systems will enable businesses to meet modern demands such as fast connections, scalability, and integration with other cloud-based services.
The declining use of landline telephones also plays a critical factor in why POTS systems are being replaced. Maintaining POTS infrastructure is also expensive for telecom companies.
Digital services as POTS line replacements offer several benefits, including:
Old fax machines rely entirely on POTS for communication. Switching from POTS to digital services eliminates the need for a fax machine and a landline. Fax documents the faster and smarter way with the ease of doing it from anywhere.
Replacing POTS offers cost savings with minimal to zero maintenance, enhancing efficiency and profitability.
The eventual phase-out of old telephone services makes iFax the best POTS line replacement.
With its modern and low-cost solutions, our VoIP fax service sets a new standard for secure, efficient, and scalable communications and digital document exchange. Instantly fax over the Internet without connecting to a phone line.
Get the most out of its email-to-fax, broadcast faxing, Fax API, and other advanced features. iFax also meets industry-specific standards with its robust security procedures and privacy protocols.
Multiple factors are at play, including costs, declining usage, and regulatory changes. Modern communication technologies have also evolved significantly. Voice over IP (VoIP), fiber-optic broadband, and other services can offer faster, more reliable, and higher-quality communications than traditional POTS lines.
Maintaining a copper line network is also expensive despite its limitation to voice-only communication. Internet-based communication solutions, including VoIP and digital fax, provide more flexibility and scalability, offering unified features ranging from unlimited calling to video conferencing, internet fax, and team messaging.
Digital solutions and standard POTS lines differ in several ways.
When it comes to faxing, digital solutions like fax over IP (VoIP fax) generally provide greater convenience and functionality. There’s the option to broadcast faxes to multiple recipients and fax documents directly over email without connecting to a phone line.
Conversely, POTS lines require a physical connection to an analog network, which is expensive to maintain and less flexible. Network congestion, line quality, or any form of interference could also lead to potential transmission errors.
Yes, absolutely. iFax, as a Fax over IP service, supports fax number porting. Businesses and customers with existing fax numbers can smoothly transition to digital faxing from POTS.
Keeping your existing fax number and porting it to iFax is free. The process takes 3-5 business days.
Yes, the quality of fax transmission over POTS largely depends on whether the line is stable. Network congestion and other connection interferences can significantly affect transmission quality. Fax transmission failures are also likely when the line is busy.
Online fax services ensure consistent, stable, high-quality fax transmissions with zero downtimes. Businesses can fax essential documents anytime and anywhere using any device connected to the Internet.
Yes, as iFax is an Internet-based fax service provider that does not require a POTS line to send and receive faxes.
iFax integrates with various email clients for seamless email faxing from Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo. Organizations seeking to simplify workflows can also use Zapier or implement fax integrations via API to connect with other business tools like EMR, EHR, and CRM systems.