“There are over a billion copper lines worldwide that will disappear in the next five to ten years,” says Jake Jacoby, CEO of TELCLOUD. “That’s why we built our platform from day one to be global—so our partners can meet this challenge anywhere their customers do business.”

In the latest episode of the TELCLOUD POTS and Shots Podcast Series, Doug Green, Publisher of Technology Reseller News, sits down with Jacoby to discuss the international scale of the POTS replacement opportunity. While the U.S. still faces the conversion of more than 25 million commercial lines, the global market represents an even larger transformation—with more than a billion lines of legacy copper that must be replaced over the coming decade.

Jacoby explains that TELCLOUD’s success in the U.S. has driven demand abroad, with active deployments now in Canada, Mexico, Germany, the UK, and additional markets in Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South America. By engineering devices and a platform ready for worldwide deployment, TELCLOUD enables resellers and carriers to address regional regulations, dial plans, and connectivity challenges while still relying on a single global backend.

For channel partners, this means two things:

• Cross-border opportunity – Many customers already operate in both the U.S. and Canada or Mexico, making international coverage a natural next step.
• Global scalability – TELCLOUD’s cloud-native design and partnerships with providers like AWS GovCloud ensure compliance and reliability, even in highly regulated environments.

Jacoby also highlighted the broader industry shift away from aging copper toward fiber, wireless, and satellite connectivity, noting that TELCLOUD’s mission is to bridge the gap—supporting legacy equipment with modern, resilient infrastructure that delivers long-term reliability.

This episode marks the 20th edition of the POTS and Shots series, and Jacoby reflected on the journey so far: “What started as a creative way to talk about technology has become an educational platform that’s helping resellers rethink their role in the copper sunset. We’re excited for the next 20.”

And true to the Shots tradition, Jacoby shared a special tasting from his travels: the Arete Gran Clase Extra Añejo, a four-year-aged tequila brought to Shanghai as a gift for international partners—underscoring the global theme of this episode.

Next in the series: “The Hidden Costs of Doing Nothing.”

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