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2. Public switched telephone network - Wikipedia

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   Public switched telephone network. The public switched telephone network ( PSTN) is the aggregate of the world's telephone networks that are operated by national, regional, or local telephony operators. It provides infrastructure and services for public telephony. The PSTN consists of telephone lines, fiber-optic cables, microwave transmission ...

3. Wide Area Telephone Service - Wikipedia

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   Wide Area Telephone Service ( WATS) was a flat-rate long-distance service for customer dial-type telecommunications in the service areas of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). The service was between a given customer phone (also known as a "station") and stations within specified geographic rate areas, employing a single telephone line ...

4. Managed facilities-based voice network - Wikipedia

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   A managed facilities-based voice network ( MFVN) is a communications network managed, operated, and maintained by a voice service provider that delivers traditional telephone service via a loop start analog telephone interface. MFVNs are interconnected with the public switched telephone network (PSTN) or other MFVNs and provide dialtone to end ...

5. Telephone line - Wikipedia

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   A telephone line or telephone circuit (or just line or circuit industrywide) is a single-user circuit on a telephone communication system. It is designed to reproduce speech of a quality that is understandable. [1] It is the physical wire or other signaling medium connecting the user's telephone apparatus to the telecommunications network, and ...

6. Party line (telephony) - Wikipedia

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   A party line ( multiparty line, shared service line, party wire) is a local loop telephone circuit that is shared by multiple telephone service subscribers. [1] [2] [3] Party line systems were widely used to provide telephone service, starting with the first commercial switchboards in 1878. [4] A majority of Bell System subscribers in the mid ...

7. Transmission tower - Wikipedia

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   Terminology. Transmission tower is the name for the structure used in the industry in the United States and some other English-speaking countries. [4] In Europe and the U.K., the terms electricity pylon and pylon derive from the basic shape of the structure, an obelisk with a tapered top. [5] In Canada, the term hydrotower is used, because ...