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  2. Plain old telephone service - Wikipedia

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    Plain old telephone service (POTS), or publicly offered telephone service, [1] is a retronym for voice-grade telephone service that employs analog signal transmission over copper loops. The term POTS originally stood for post office telephone service , [ citation needed ] as early telephone lines in many regions were operated directly by local ...

  3. Still love your landline? Phone service providers are getting ...

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    That’s part of a sweeping move by phone service providers to replace older copper wire-based telephone systems lines, also known as Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS), with faster and more ...

  4. Naked DSL - Wikipedia

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    Verizon's own customers are required to buy Verizon branded voice services in order to purchase any kind of DSL. In regular DSL, a cable runs from the telephone switch to a piece of equipment called a Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) splitter. This splitter separates the DSL and voice bands.

  5. Landline - Wikipedia

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    Landline service is typically provided through the outside plant of a telephone company's central office, or wire center. The outside plant comprises tiers of cabling between distribution points in the exchange area, so that a single pair of copper wire, or an optical fiber, reaches each subscriber location, such as a home or office, at the network interface.

  6. Verizon New York - Wikipedia

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    POTS, DSL, FiOS Number of employees ... Verizon New York, Inc., ... including 3,000 Verizon employees plus non-Verizon employees, helped restore service, allowing the ...

  7. FXO and FXS - Wikipedia

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    A similar "FCO" service provided no difference in local calling area (the distant exchange is in the same rate centre). Historically, it was a means to obtain features not available on the local exchange (such as DTMF tone dialling when first introduced in 1963) [ 7 ] or keep an existing business telephone number operational after a cross-town ...

  8. Automatic number announcement circuit - Wikipedia

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    By connecting a test telephone set, a technician calls the local telephone number of the automatic number announcement service. This call is connected to equipment at the central office that uses automatic equipment to announce the telephone number of the line calling in. The main purpose of this system is to allow telephone company technicians ...

  9. Verizon Fios - Wikipedia

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    The service initially launched in Virginia and Maryland in September 2008 and eventually fully replaced an earlier service, VoiceWing, which Verizon offered from 2004 to early 2009. [ 12 ] While Verizon also offers plain old telephone service (POTS), it has been reported in various markets that Verizon physically disconnected the copper lines ...