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telephone line to phone cord: The wall jack. This connection is the most standardized, and often regulated as the boundary between an individual's telephone and the telephone network. In many residences, though, the boundary between utility-owned and household-owned cabling is a network interface on an outside wall known as the demarcation ...
A telephone line or telephone circuit (or just line or circuit industrywide) is a single-user circuit on a telephone communication system. [1] It is designed to reproduce speech of a quality that is understandable. [2] It is the physical wire or other signaling medium connecting the user's telephone apparatus to the telecommunications network ...
Retrieved 12 October 2019. A landline (land line, land-line, main line, fixed-line, and wireline) is a telephone connection that uses metal wires from the owner's premises also referred to as: POTS, Twisted pair, telephone line or public switched telephone network (PSTN). Landline services are traditionally provided via an analogue copper wire ...
Dialing *70 can prevent the call from completing when the phone line does not have the call waiting feature active. Leave this option unchecked if you are no longer able to connect. 3. Check or uncheck, “I have to dial this number to reach an outside line” depending on your telephone line. Normally, this should not be selected.
The Moscow–Washington hotline (formally known in the United States as the Washington–Moscow Direct Communications Link; [1] Russian: Горячая линия Вашингтон – Москва, romanized: Goryachaya liniya Vashington–Moskva) is a system that allows direct communication between the leaders of the United States and the Russian Federation (formerly the Soviet Union).
20th century Bell Canada demarcation point for a single phone line. The spark-gap surge protectors on the left have hex heads for easy removal. Near center, a post is connected to the house's ground. The other two connection points are for tip and ring. A test jack can be attached nearby so the home-owner or tenant can verify whether the inside ...
Tip and ring. 1: Sleeve, 2: Ring, 3: Tip, 4: Insulators. Tip and ring are the two conductors or sides of a telephone line. Their names are derived from the telephone plugs used for connecting telephone calls in manual switchboards. One side of the line is connected to the metal tip of the plug, and the second is connected to a metal ring behind ...
British telephone sockets were introduced in their current plug and socket form on 19 November 1981 by British Telecom to allow subscribers to connect their own telephones. The connectors are specified in British Standard BS 6312. [1][2][3] Electrical characteristics of the telephone interface are specified by individual network operators, [4 ...