An informal term for traditional voice-grade communication systems.

Analog phone system that can carry frequencies from 300 Hz – 3.4 kHz.

The analog telephone service that runs over copper twisted-pair wires and is based on the original Bell telephone system. Twisted-pair wires connect homes and businesses to a neighborhood central office. This is called the local loop. The central office is connected to other central offices and long-distance facilities.

Short for lain ld elephone ervices, the standard voice-grade telephone service common in homes and business.

Acronym for The Path of the Shell, the second expansion pack (and it contains the first one, too). It covers a separate adventure in Er'cana and Ahnonay.

Traps made of wire mesh, plastic, wood, and netting which are baited and left on the ocean floor. When fish or crabs go in they can't get out.

Plain old telephone services, delivery over copper telephone lines/wires.

Basic voice dial-tone phone service.

What you are using when you pick up your telephone.

The wire used in older homes and many newer homes for the telephone wiring. It is a solid conductor, untwisted wire that is unsuitable for most data applications. Due to its prevalence in US homes, several protocols have been developed that can be run over POTS wire. These include HomePnA and XDSL. The FCC has specified that new home construction and new wiring in homes should not use POTS wire for telephone cabling any longer. CAT3 is the minimum wire recommended.

Plain Old Telephone Network Used interchangably with PSTN to describe the standard telephone network.

Basic voice grade swithced telephone service.

This is a common term known all around the world and is used to define the everyday analog telephone.

Refers to a regular local telephone company ( LEC) residential or business line. [Back to Glossary Table of Contents

The basic service supplying standard single line telephones, telephone lines and access to the public switched network.

Plain Old Telephone Service. The traditional analog telephone service provided by most common carriers. (See broadband, dial-up, DSL, ISDN). close

Traditional phone service that is found in most homes and businesses. POTS is in contrast to advanced services such as ISDN and DSL, which are digital and provide greater bandwidth.

Is a step below a PSTN as POTS just supplies simple single line phone systems with NO features what so ever.

Basic telephone service - standard single-line telephones, telephone lines, and access to the public switched network. There are no added features, such as call waiting or call forwarding, with POTS.

Plain Old Telephone Service. The basic single line switched access service offered by local exchange carriers to residential and business end users, using loop-start signaling.

Plain Old Telephone Service. Transmits analog information through one channel. It is not ISDN.

Plain Old Telephone Service. POTS refers to a single line, measured or flat rate, telephone service that could be used as either a business line or residence line.

(Plain Old Telephone Service) Standard telephone service used by most residential locations.

Plain Old Telephone Service - Used to refer to the regular old-fashioned telephone system. It is also referred to as PSTN, or Public Switched Telephone Network.

Plain Old Telephone Service. Used in reference to standard telephony, as in placing and receiving telephone calls.

POTS is the only name recognized around the world for basic analog telephone service.

This is an acronym for Plain Old Telephone Service.

Plain Old Telephone Service. Basic telephone service with no special features.

plain old telephone service. General term referring to the variety of telephone networks and services in place worldwide.

Plain Old Telephone System uses modem typically: 2,400 baud, 9,600 baud, 14,400 baud, 28,800 baud

Plain Old Telephone System, Pretty Old Telephone System

acronym for the telephone network which stands for Plain Old Telephone Service

Plain Old Telephone Service. The normal telephone lines that you use to speak on your normal telephone, and sometimes to dial in to your telephone-based ISP.

Plain Old (analog) Telephone Service/System

Plain old telephone service. The telephone service in common use throughout the world today. Also known as PSTN.

Plain Old Telephone Service. Refers to the legacy fixed telephone service that is served by a telephone switch (Local Exchange). The term is often mentioned in comparison to new telephone technologies, such as VoIP, VoDSL, VoATM. Also see PSTN.

Plain Old Telephone Service. Standard analog phone lines used for voice and computer modem operation.

Plain Old Telephone Service - See CO, Analog Single Line Station, Loop Start Line

The original copper line phone system that uses switches to route calls.

Plain Old Telephone System; typically 3Khz (2400 b/s) bandwidth

Plain old telephone services. Analogue telephone system.

Plain Old Telephone Service. A telecommunications term used to refer to basic telephone voice service.

Acronym for lain ld elephone ervice. Basic dial telephone connections to the public switched network, without any added features or functions. A POTS line is nothing but a phone line connected to a simple desktop telephone.

Standard analog telephone service.

Plan Old Telephone System. The analog phone system (including telephones, modems, central offices switches, etc., currently in use around the world.

Plain Old Telephone Service. The basic service of supplying a single telephone set and access to the public switched network.

Plain old telephone service; standard single telephone lines. They typical telephone line that we all have used.

Acronym for Plain-Old Telephone Service. Same as public switched telephone network (PSTN). POTS is also an acronym for point of termination station, which refers to where a telephone call terminates.

Plain Old Telephone Service. Simply placing and receiving phone calls where there are no added features such as call waiting or voice mail.

(Plain Old Telephone Service) - industry slang to describe dialtone delivered on a analog, copper wire circuit. Telephone service to a residence is typically delivered over a POTS circuit.

Plain Old Telephone Service. Normal twisted-pair telephone service (dial tone).

See Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS).

Plain Old Telephone Service; the acronym often used for ordinary analog telephone connections as used in a residence. POTS lines have an analog bandwidth limitation of about 3Khz. Has nothing to do with line features such as call waiting or caller ID. If it's analogue, two wire, and on the public switched network it's POTS.

Plain Old Telephone Service. Any old style analog telephone will work on a POTS line. A POTS line has no special (usually extra cost) features and does not require any special telephone to work.

(Plain Old Telephone Service) Standard, analogue telephone service over the PSTN, with an analogue bandwidth of less than 4 kHz.

Plain Old Telephone Service. A historical term describing basic telephone service carried over two-wire copper loop and out to the PSTN.

Jargon, Plain Old Telephone Service.

Plain Old Telephone Service (really). A regular residential analog phone.

Plain Old Telephone Service: an analog (non-digital) telephone line.

Plain Old Telephone System refers to traditional analogue telephone networks. Now being replaced by PANS - Pretty Amazing new Services

Plain Old Telephone Service. As it sounds, your basic telephone service.

Single line twisted-pair residential telephone service.

Plain Old Telephone Service is the most simple analog telephone service available.

Plain Old Telephone Service. Telephone service as we know it today.

Plain Old Telephone Service. Regular analog phone service, as opposed to ISDN, ADSL, and other digital phone services.

Plain Old Telephone Service is a basic analogue telephone service.

Plain old telephone service. Voice-grade telephone service.

Plain Old Telephone Service Basic voice service available in residences throughout the United States.

Plain Old Telephone Service. A term used to describe the standard analog service.

Plain Old Telephone System. Pre-ISDN equipment.

Plain Old Telephone Service, a simple non-enhanced analog telephone circuit.

The analog dial tone-type telephone networks and services in place worldwide with transmission rates up to 52 kbps. In contrast, telephone services based on digital communications lines, such as ISDN, have higher speeds and bandwidths. POTS networks are also called public switched telephone networks (PSTNs).

Plain Old Telephone Service is the term applied to the normal telephone service delivered by a PSTN CO switch.

Plain Old Telephone Service. Basic voice telephone service is called POTS.

Plain Old Telephone Service. Analogue telephone line employing e.g. twisted-pair cables for transmission of modulated voice signals. See also PSTN.

Plain Old Telephone Service - analog phone service, takes the lowest 4KHz of bandwidth on loop.

Plain Old Telephone System – the telephone

Plain Old Telephone Set. A normal analogue phone, just as you'd use at home. Some POTS are designed for call centre use and utilise headsets rather than handsets.

Refers to traditional telephone, or dial tone, service.

Plain Old Telephone Service. Conventional analog narrowband telephone line using twisted-pair copper wire for transmitting voice calls.

Plain Old Telephone Service: conventional voice grade service and cabling infrastructure.

A term sometimes used in discussion of new telephone technologies in which the question of whether and how existing voice transmission for ordinary phone communication can be accommodated. For example, ADSL and ISDN provide some part of their channels for "plain old telephone service" while providing most of their bandwidth for digital data transmission.

Plain old telephone service. Basic telephone service usually defined as simple voice telephony.

Plain Old Telephone Service. The analog voice telephone network provided by common carriers.

Plain Old Telephone System The familiar single phone line, single phone number system that has been in existence for many years.

Plain Old Telephony Service

lain ld elephone ervice. Refers to 56Kbps analog phone connections.

(Plain Old Telephone Service) - The basic telephone service and equipment provided by the phone company.

Plain Old Telephone Service. Plain Old Telephone service refers to a single analog line telephone network. This system has transmission rates up to 52 kbps. POTS networks are also called public switched telephone networks (PSTNs).

The acronym for Plain Old Telephone Service. This refers to the standard telephone service used in most homes.

(Plain-Old-Telephone-Service) A traditional telephone system, such as one in your home that includes wiring and phone jacks. Also called a landline.

Plain Old Telephone Service; a regular voice-grade telephone line.

Plain Old Telephone Services A single line telephone service with no frills. You can simply make or receive one call at a time.

Plain Old Telephone Service - The common analog telephone system

Plain Old Telephone Service. This is the term used to describe basic telephone service.

Read as Plain Old Telephone Service. It is a short form for traditional phone services.

Plain Old Telephone Service. Used to describe standard voice telephone lines. In terms of bandwidth, these lines are at the bottom of the telecommunications hierarchy

Plain Old Telephone Service. What you use to call and complain about the lousy phone service...

Plain old telephone service, the dial-tone service offered for a century that's now incrementally being replaced by IP-based telephony called VOIP

(Plain Old Telephone Service) Basic, single line telephone service provided by a local exchange carrier (LEC).

Plain Old Telecom Services; a synonym for old style switched telecoms.... more on POTS

Plain Old Telephone System. Refers to the voice communication capabilities of a PSTN.

(Plain Old Telephone Service). POTS refers to a basic telephone connection to the public switched network.

Plain old telephone system. (The analog phone system)

plain old telephone service, typified by a telephone hand set and dial ring or pad, a 2 wire service for two way communications, see dial tone

"Plain Old Telephone Service," a common name for a telephone line.

Plain old telephone service. A type of service provided by PSTN. See also PSTN.

Plain Old Telephone Service - A standard phone line. This is what most residences have.

Plain Old Telephone Service. Sometimes used in discussions of new telephone technologies in which the question of whether and how existing voice transmission for ordinary telephone communication can be accommodated. For example, DSL and ISDN provide part of their channels for POTS, while using most of their bandwidth for digital data transmission.

Plain Old Telephone Service. A term used to distinguish traditional human-to-human telephony services from other uses of the telephone circuits, for example, computer-to-computer data transmission over modem.

This is a basic voice service available in residences throughout the United States.

Plain Old Telephone Service. This term often is used to refer to analog voice telephone services provided over the public switched telephone network.

Plain old telephone service. The acronym is used in the term "POTS-routable," which refers to the ability of the telephone system to deliver a call to a particular switch and return a particular DNIS.

Plain Old Telephone Service. Basic single-line telephone service for the public switched telephone network (PSTN). With some exceptions, POTS only supports making and receiving calls, and POTS lines can handle only one conversation at a time. To use a conventional modem and a telephone at the same time on a POTS system, two lines are needed.

Plain Old Telephone Service. It refers to the telephone lines that most homes and businesses have.

Plain Old Telephone System. A slang acronym that refers to the analogue phone system that most countries use.

Plain Old Telephone System - describes the old standard phone wire and connection as opposed to DID, DOD, ISDN, T1, etc.

Nothing more than a standard telephone line, the kind Ma Bell and then AT&T handled exclusively before the deregulation of the telephone industry. Upgrade your POTS to DSL, and you have broadband; add VoIP, and you have a system that uses POTS, the PSTN, and the Internet in (ideally) seamless system.

The typical, familiar single-phone-line-and-single-phone-number model.

Plain old telephones

Plain Old Telephone Service - The service that provides a single analog voice line (i.e. a traditional phone line).

plain old telephone service. Conventional local telephony routed through the public switched telephone network.

or Plain Old Telephone Service - This term commonly refers to standard telephony, as in placing and receiving telephone calls.

Another name for traditional wired, land based telephone service.

(See Plain Old Telephone Service)

Plain Old Telephone Service, referring to analogue telephone service, nominal 0-3 kHz bandwidth.

Basic telephone service supplying standard single line telephones, telephone lines, and access to the PSTN.

Plain Old Telephone Service. An acronym identifying the traditional function of a telephone network to allow voice communication between two people across a distance. In most contexts, POTS is synonymous with the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).

The only name recognized around the world for basic analog telephone service. POTS takes the lowest 4kHz of bandwidth on twisted pair wiring. Any service sharing a line with POTS (like DSL) must either use frequencies above POTS or convert POTS to digital and interleave with other data signals.

Plain Old Telephone Services. Plain old telephone service is the providing of basic telephone service without any enhanced features.

Unless you are reading this at a high-tech company or large corporation -- which has ISDN or T1 lines -- chances are you accessed over POTS, copper wires that transmit at about 28.8 Kbps. Which means surfing for you surfing is a fairly slow business.

Plain Old Telephone Service. The lowest-performance voice, video and data transmission technology. See also "wireline" and "land line."

Short for Plain Old Telephone Service.

(Plain Old Telephone Service) - The term used to describe your regular phone line.

Plain Old Telephone Service - conventional analog telephone service delivered over copper wire.

Plain Old Telephone Service. Connects regular computers or networks over longer distances. Regular service to most residential and business customers provides a maximum bandwidth of between 28.8 Kbps and 56 Kbps.

(Abbreviation for "Plain Old Telephone Service") The combination of analog and digital, fiber optic and copper lined public phone system we have today. Slowly being converted to all-fiber/all-digital. The big stumbling block is the so-called "last mile" to your house which, in most locations, is still copper.

Plain Old Telephony System – Snail telephony is USA

Plain Old Telephone System. See PSTN.

(Plain Old Telephone Service): The ubiquitous, 64 kbps phone service widely deployed in today's phone networks.

Plain Old Telephone Service. The traditional telephone service for the transmission of human speech across the telephone network.

Plain Old Telephone Service without any added features or functions. Not to be confused with POTUS, the Secret Service term for President Of the United States.

Plain Old Telephone Service. The type of service carried on the PSTN.

Plain Old Telephone Service. The basic, traditional mode of copper-wire, switched telephone services.

Plain old Telephone Service. This is a reference to non-ISDN, analogue lines.

Stands for "Plain Old Telephone Service." This describes basic telephone service needed in developing countries.

Plain Old Telephone Service Predictive Text Input

Plain Old Telephone Network; a telephone industry colloquial nickname for PSTN.

point of termination station. Basic dial telephone connections to the public switched network, without any added features or functions. Plain old telephone service and point of termination station is also called POTS.

(Plain Old Telephone Service) - Basic voice service available throughout the United States. Dial-up connections are usually made over POTS.

Basic telephone service utilizing single-line phones to connect to the public switched network with no added features. Uses LOOP START (see also) signaling.

Abbreviation for plain old telephone system. A call that requires nothing more than basic call handling without additional features.

Plain Old Telephone System or Plain Old Telephone Service switching circuit. The analog phone lines capable of making and receiving calls.

Commonly known as basic telephone service.