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2. 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.

3. List of United States telephone companies - Wikipedia

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   Telephone and Data Systems, (through its subsidiary TDS) serves mainly rural areas in parts of 36 states. [3] Altafiber, which serves the greater Cincinnati area, and Hawaii due to its acquisition of Hawaiian Telcom [4] was not included in the Bell System breakup of 1984 because the former AT&T held only a minority stake in that company.

4. History of the telephone in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The telephone played a major communications role in American history from the 1876 publication of its first patent by Alexander Graham Bell onward. In the 20th century the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) dominated the telecommunication market as the at times largest company in the world, until it was broken up in 1982 and replaced by a system of competitors.

5. Telephone exchange - Wikipedia

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   A telephone exchange, also known as a telephone switch or central office, is a crucial component in the public switched telephone network (PSTN) or large enterprise telecommunications systems. It facilitates the interconnection of telephone subscriber lines or digital system virtual circuits, enabling calls between subscribers.

6. Who still owns a landline phone? You might be surprised at ...

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   Researchers everywhere count on telephone surveys to compile data, often relying on landline telephones. In the 2000s, as consumers canceled home telephone service, researchers worried that their ...

7. Extension (telephone) - Wikipedia

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   In business telephony, a telephone extension may refer to a phone on an internal telephone line attached to a private branch exchange (PBX) or Centrex system. The PBX operates much as a community switchboard does for a geographic telephone numbering plan and allows multiple lines inside the office to connect without each phone requiring a ...