Plain old telephone service

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Notion

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

Plain old telephone service (POTS), or rarely publicly offered telephone service, is a retronym for voice-grade telephone service that employs analog signal transmission over copper loops.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Plain old telephone service”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: John Dorwin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.