Source note · POTS line replacement and copper retirement
FCC 15-98 required providers of facilities-based fixed residential voice service that is not line-powered to offer subscribers at the point of sale an option for 8 hours of standby backup power.
Checked 2026-10-02
- Vendor
- not restricted
- Product
- not restricted
- Subsystem
- backup-power
- Deployment
- residential-fixed-voice
- Region
- us
- Release range
- 2015 order; ten-year limit
- Checked
- 2026-10-02
Sources
- Report and Order, Ensuring Continuity of 911 Communications (FCC 15-98) — Federal Communications Commission · tier 1 standards and regulators · paras. 25, 29, 31
Cite this note
APA
WarmTransfer. (2026, October 2). POTS line replacement and copper retirement: source note pots-line-replacement-backup-power-8-hour. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/pots-line-replacement-backup-power-8-hour
BibTeX
@misc{warmtransfer-claim-pots-line-replacement-backup-power-8-hour,
title = {POTS line replacement and copper retirement: source note pots-line-replacement-backup-power-8-hour},
author = {{WarmTransfer}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/pots-line-replacement-backup-power-8-hour},
note = {Source note pots-line-replacement-backup-power-8-hour, checked 2026-10-02}
}