MetTel’s Don Parente: End of Copper POTS Lines an Opportunity for Government Digital Transformation
Don Parente, vice president of public sector sales and solution architecture at MetTel, said the looming retirement of copper telephone lines calls for government agencies to take a proactive approach by conducting an assessment and audit of plain old telephone services and related systems and exploring the shift to a digital communications network. “An audit identifies all communication needs, both internal and external, to determine which services are critical and cannot be disrupted during a transition,” Parente wrote in an article published Tuesday in Nextgov/FCW.