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Plain Old Telephone Service

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(communications)Plain Old Telephone Service - (POTS) The traditional voice service provided by phone companies, especially when opposed to data services.

Note that the acronym POTS is sometimes expanded as "Plain Old Telephone System" in which sense it is synonymous to Public Switched Telephone Network but used somewhat derogatively.

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The system has multi-service capabilities that supports both voice applications, plain old telephone service (POTS) and integrated services digital network (ISDN), as well as broadband applications, such as asynchronous digital subscriber line (ADSL), G.
Viseon's mission is to work with carriers to enhance the consumer telephone experience by positioning VoIP as a premium service versus Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS), and ultimately replacing the analog telephone by bringing digital telephony quality to the broader public.
In developing countries such as China, Brazil, and India, which typically have high population densities with very low deployment of telephone service to the population, the key is to provide basic plain old telephone service (POTS) at very low cost points," said Paul Pietrusewicz, strategic marketing manager with Lucent's Microelectronics Group.
 
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