3. Jay Morris, MoreComm

Jay Morris, chief aggregation officer at MoreComm Solutions, couldn’t have been clearer about rumors surrounding POTS replacement and that’s why he made waves this week.

“There are 38 million POTS lines still out there on various ILECs and CLECs, and none of them are mandated by the FCC to be shut off or transitioned to IP telephony. Not previously, not now, not in the near future.”

According to many parties in the telecommunications industry, the FCC mandated the decommissioning of plain old telephone services (POTS) lines by Aug. 2. 

However, an FCC representative confirmed via email that the FCC has not mandated POTS replacement by that date.

Read more background about the FCC and misinformation surrounding a full-scale POTS decommissioning.