POTS Replacement
You are paying $200 to $800 a month for copper lines nobody maintains anymore, and some of them run nothing at all. Aiwel audits every analog line on your bill, eliminates what you don’t need, and moves the rest onto modern alternatives at 40 to 60% less.
POTS Replacement Services Aiwel Manages
Line Audit and Bill Review
Aiwel inventories every analog line across every site, identifies what is dead, duplicated, or forgotten, and eliminates it. A meaningful share of the savings comes from here alone.
Carrier Consolidation
Aiwel brings multiple carriers and sites onto centralized billing and visibility, so you can see what you are spending on analog across the business rather than site by site.
Modern Replacements
Aiwel transitions the remaining lines onto LTE, VoIP, or fibre alternatives built to keep fax machines, POS terminals, gate intercoms, and SCADA connections working as they do today.
Compliance-Grade Lines
Aiwel matches fire panels, alarms, and elevator phones to MFVN-certified solutions meeting NFPA 72, CAN/ULC-S561, and ASME A17.1B, with the standby power your fire code requires.
Find Out What Your Analog Lines Really Cost
How Aiwel Runs Your POTS Replacement
Aiwel works through these three stages, starting with discovery rather than assumptions, because POTS replacement is rarely as simple as swapping a line for a box.
The Analog Audit
Aiwel finds every hidden copper pair in the building and every analog charge on the bill: fire panels, elevator cabs, fax lines, POS terminals, gate entry, alarm circuits, and the metering nobody remembers installing.
Assess and Eliminate
Aiwel establishes what each line actually does and what it costs. Lines serving nothing get cancelled. The rest get matched to a solution sized to their real criticality, not a single product applied everywhere.
Deploy and Verify
Aiwel coordinates signal testing, installation, vendor scheduling, and cutover, then confirms every replacement line works before any copper is disconnected.
Where Aiwel’s POTS Replacement Adds Value
Most providers sell one POTS replacement product and fit your building to it. Aiwel is vendor-neutral across the market, which matters because your lines are not all the same. Life safety needs local switching and MFVN certification, not a cloud ATA that fails five to ten percent of the time. A fax line does not. Matching each line to what it genuinely requires is how you avoid overpaying on the simple ones and staying under-protected on the ones carrying liability.
Carriers are retiring copper on their timeline, not yours. Bell and TELUS are issuing sunset dates, technicians who can service analog are retiring, repair tickets go unanswered, and copper theft hit Canadian life-safety lines hard through 2024 and 2025. Aiwel also handles what most firms skip: verifying cellular signal in your telecom room before committing, confirming standby power meets ULC-S561, and testing every line before anything is cut.
Beyond POTS Replacement
Aiwel’s POTS replacement work connects to our voice, network, and infrastructure practices, so your telecom is one program rather than a stack of separate bills. Explore our other services:
Frequently Asked Questions About our POTS Replacement Services
How much does POTS replacement actually save?
Organizations typically save 40 to 60%. Canadian line rates have climbed to $200 to $800 per month as carriers push customers off copper. More savings come from the lines Aiwel finds that you no longer need at all, which is often more than people expect.
Why are our line costs rising so fast?
Carriers are no longer required to maintain copper, so they are pricing it to encourage you to leave. Maintenance has effectively stopped, the technicians who understand analog are retiring, and the cost of the remaining network is being passed to the customers still on it.
Do we have to replace everything at once?
No. Aiwel starts with the audit, cancels what serves nothing, and sequences the rest by cost and criticality. Some clients begin with a billing transfer for visibility and migrate lines in waves afterward.
Can we keep our existing numbers and equipment?
Usually, yes. Most POTS replacement solutions support analog equipment over digital networks, so the fax machine, the POS terminal, and the panel on the wall keep operating as they do today, on the same numbers.
Is one solution right for every line?
No, and this is where most projects go wrong. Fire panels and elevator phones need MFVN-certified local switching. Fax and POS lines do not. Aiwel matches each line to its actual requirement rather than applying one product across the building.
What happens if we do nothing?
Your lines stop working when the copper is cut, on the carrier’s schedule. For fire panels and elevator phones that is a compliance failure and a liability exposure, not just an outage. Waiting until a line goes dead means paying more with fewer options.
What if cellular signal is weak in our telecom room?
Aiwel tests signal strength across carriers before committing to an LTE-based solution, and assesses whether an external antenna is viable given where your demarcation point sits. Finding that out beforehand is the difference between a clean install and a failed one.
Will our fire alarm monitoring stay compliant?
That is the first thing Aiwel checks. Solutions are matched against NFPA 72, CAN/ULC-S561, and your site’s standby power requirement, with documentation you can hand to your fire authority or insurer.
Do you support multi-site organizations?
Yes. Aiwel consolidates multi-site analog across carriers onto centralized billing and visibility, which is usually where the largest and least visible waste turns up.
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