On 23/12/2020 23:26, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> Nope mine is POTS, I plugged an old analogue phone into it when it
> was put in just to test it. How far that POTS goes is another matter about
> which I know nothing - after all I've a box where POTS signals go a few
> centimetres on a PCB before becoming SIP.

Indeed so!

Obviously in the 1960s all trunk analogue was replaced with 64kbps TDM
digital channels, and one assumes that the exchanges actually had
digital to analogue converters in them. That digital service - or a
packet switched equivalent - has been getting nearer and nearer to thee
consumer.



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  “A leader is best When people barely know he exists. Of a good leader,
who talks little,When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,They will say,
“We did this ourselves.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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