DIY Life Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Public switched telephone network - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_switched_telephone...

   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 links, cellular networks, communications satellites, and undersea telephone cables ...

3. Party line (telephony) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_(telephony)

   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 ...

4. Wide Area Telephone Service - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Area_Telephone_Service

   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 ...

5. Plain old telephone service - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_old_telephone_service

   Plain Old Telephone Service ( POTS ), or Plain Ordinary Telephone System, [1] is a retronym for voice-grade telephone service employing analog signal transmission over copper loops. Originally POTS stood for Post Office Telephone Service as early phone lines in most parts of the world were operated directly by the local Post Office. (For instance, in New Zealand the telephone system was owned ...

6. History of the telephone - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_telephone

   Explore the evolution of telephone technology and its impact on communication through the history of the telephone.

7. Telephone line - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_line

   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 ...

8. 1A2 Key Telephone System - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1A2_Key_Telephone_System

   The 1A2 Key Telephone System is a modular system that provided flexible solutions for a variety of telephone service requirements. It provides multiple users with control over multiple telephone lines without the requirement for an operator, system attendant, or receptionist. Each user can select a specific telephone line to place calls on, or ...

9. Cordless telephone - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordless_telephone

   A cordless telephone or portable telephone has a portable telephone handset that connects by radio to a base station connected to the public telephone network. The operational range is limited, usually to the same building or within some short distance from the base station. A cordless telephone differs functionally from a mobile telephone in ...