Time to Reconsider the Cost of Your Elevator Phone Line
Your elevator emergency phone may rarely be used, but when someone needs it, the connection has to work. That makes an elevator phone line different from most telephone service: it is a low-usage, life-safety communication line that needs dependable service without the increasingly high cost of maintaining a traditional copper telephone line.
Destra Business Services offers a practical alternative with Mobile Connect 2, our cellular phone line solution for elevators and other critical building communication systems.
With service starting at $44 per month, per line, Mobile Connect 2 can significantly reduce the monthly cost of keeping an elevator emergency phone connected while allowing many buildings to continue using their existing elevator phone equipment.
Replace Expensive Copper Elevator Phone Lines with Cellular Service
For decades, elevator emergency phones were connected to conventional POTS, or Plain Old Telephone Service, copper lines. Those lines provided the familiar dial tone expected by existing elevator phones, gate systems, intercoms, and other analog communication equipment.
The problem is that traditional copper telephone infrastructure is no longer the inexpensive utility it once was. Property owners are increasingly looking for alternatives that allow them to maintain their existing equipment without continuing to pay premium rates for an old copper line.
Mobile Connect 2 bridges that gap.
The cellular gateway connects your existing analog elevator phone equipment to a cellular network while providing the dial-tone interface the equipment expects. In many installations, that means there is no need to replace a working elevator phone simply because the telephone service behind it is changing.
For property managers, HOA boards, commercial building owners, senior living facilities, parking structures, hotels, apartment communities, and other properties with elevators, this can provide a straightforward path from an aging copper line to modern cellular service.
Save Up to 60% on Elevator Phone Service
Depending on what you are currently paying for traditional telephone service, converting an elevator phone line to Mobile Connect 2 can provide substantial monthly savings.
DBS customers have seen savings of 20% to 60% compared with their previous telephone service, while Mobile Connect 2 service starts at just $44 per month, per line.
Those savings become even more significant for properties with several elevators or multiple analog communication lines.
An individual telephone line may not seem like a major building expense, but recurring charges add up quickly. A property with several elevator phones, gate intercoms, parking phones, pool phones, or other emergency communication devices can be paying hundreds or thousands of dollars each year simply to keep rarely used copper telephone lines active.
Mobile Connect 2 gives property owners an opportunity to reduce that expense without unnecessarily replacing compatible existing communication equipment.
Keep Your Existing Elevator Phone
One of the biggest advantages of Mobile Connect 2 is that the conversion takes place at the communication line rather than requiring a complete replacement of the elevator phone system.
Our cellular gateway is designed to work with a wide range of existing analog elevator phones and related communication equipment.
The Mobile Connect 2 supplies the telephone interface and dial tone your equipment expects, while the outgoing communication is carried over a cellular network instead of a traditional copper telephone line.
This makes cellular conversion particularly attractive for older buildings where the elevator phone itself continues to operate properly.
Instead of replacing working equipment, DBS can often convert the communication path behind it.
Elevator Emergency Communication Still Has to Meet Code
Reducing the cost of the telephone line does not change the importance of the emergency communication system itself.
ASME A17.1 establishes requirements for two-way emergency communication in passenger elevators, including communication with authorized or emergency personnel. The ADA Standards also contain accessibility requirements for elevator emergency communication systems.
The exact requirements that apply to an individual elevator can depend on the elevator, building, jurisdiction, adopted code edition, and existing equipment. That is why DBS approaches an elevator phone conversion as more than simply installing a cellular device.
The goal is to maintain a dependable communication path while working with the equipment and requirements already present at the property.
More Than Just Elevator Phones
Although Mobile Connect 2 is an excellent solution for elevator emergency phones, the same copper-to-cellular technology can be used with many other analog communication systems.
Properties may use Mobile Connect 2 for existing gate and entry intercoms, parking structure phones, pool phones, emergency call stations, front-desk communication systems, security equipment, and other devices that were originally designed to operate over a standard telephone line.
This is especially useful when the equipment itself still works well but the telephone line serving it has become expensive, unreliable, or difficult to maintain.
A Simple Path from Copper to Cellular
If your elevator phone still depends on a traditional landline, there may be no reason to continue paying high monthly telephone company charges just to maintain that connection.
Destra Business Services specializes in copper-to-cellular conversions for elevator phones and building communication systems. We can evaluate your existing equipment, determine whether Mobile Connect 2 is an appropriate replacement for the current telephone line, and provide a cellular solution designed around the equipment already installed at your property.
There is no reason to replace a working elevator phone simply because the telephone network behind it is changing.
Cut the copper line, keep the equipment, and move your elevator communication to cellular with Mobile Connect 2.
