Ooma Inc., a smart communications platform for businesses and consumers, announced that TouchTone Communications, an integrated communications service provider, will offer Ooma AirDial for POTS replacement to TouchTone’s extensive network of communications infrastructure providers, including those who support alarm and safety monitoring companies.
TouchTone’s partners, who provide communications services for central monitoring stations operated by alarm and emergency response companies, face a unique challenge: the phasing-out of legacy copper-wire phone lines, informally known as Plain Old Telephone Service or POTS. This threatens safety devices and business-critical systems that require a POTS line — ranging from fire alarm panels to elevator phones, fax machines, public safety phones, building access systems and more — and often can’t be migrated to internet-based connections.