Plain old telephone service
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plain-old-telephone-service-165-181917
title:
Plain old telephone service
text:
Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS), or Plain Ordinary Telephone System, 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. POTS was the standard service offering from telephone companies from 1876 until 1988 in the United States when the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) Basic Rate In
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encyclopedia
description:
Traditional analog voice land line telephone service
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_old_telephone_service
date created:
2002-12-23T00:16:04Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T06:00:55Z
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