Can a video conferencing phone make a call to POTS using VoIP?

Can a video conferencing phone make a call to POTS using VoIP?

Can a video conferencing phone make a call to POTS using VoIP?

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There are video phones that can make calls over POTS lines using the ITU-T H.324 standard.

Note that if a SIP phone supporting voice and video makes a call to a standard PSTN gateway, only audio will be supported.

This was first published in September 2004