a telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits; "a land line can be wire or fiber optics or microwave"
refers to any communications network that transmits information though wires or cables only.
A colloquial name for conventional telephone facilities.
a copper wire or fiber optic cable above or below ground used to send data. Traditional wired telephone service, rather than wireless service.
Telephone. When discussing an exclusive story, assignment managers ask reporters in the field to call on a regular phone to guard against another station monitoring a conversation on a two-way radio frequency.
Voice, video and data transmission technology that relies on wires. [See also POTS and Wireline.
The telephone service or (PSTN).
Traditional wired phone service. Voice, video and data transmission technology that relies on wires. Also called wireline.