phone line
Voice transmission channel
A phone line is the wire or connection that carries telephone signals, or the telephone service itself.
You might have two phone lines in your house—one for voice calls, one for a fax machine.
When someone says the phone lines are down, they mean the system isn't working.
In the age of cell phones, the term often specifies a traditional landline connection.
- wireThin metallic conductor
- dial toneSound indicating phone readiness
- connectionA joining or relation
- switchboardTelephone routing panel
- dead airUnintended broadcast quiet
voicemail · rotary dial · off the hook · DSL · call forwarding · PSTN · area code · modem · call · answering machine · collect call · beep · touch-tone · cord · static · hold · pulse · support
- communication methodsradio, television, text, telegraph, postal system
- dial-upmodem, 56k, 56k modem, dial tone, busy signal
- phone systemsPBX, extension, handset, main menu, touch tone
- telecom infrastructurecell tower, central office, switchboard, fiber optic, fiber optics
- utility lineswater main, gas main
- communicationsannouncement, address, key messages, briefing, email
phone linewireless
Untethered signal transmission
cellular · mobile network · wireless connection · satellite phone · Wi-Fi calling
phone lineface-to-face
Direct personal encounter
in person · mail · letter · postal service · telegraph
line, phone, online, telephone, lineup, phones, hotline, phonetics, phonetic