telephone wire
Pole-strung copper strand
Telephone wire is the copper cable that carries voice signals between telephones and switching stations.
The wires typically run overhead on utility poles or underground in cables.
Birds lined up on the telephone wire.
The term persists even as landline infrastructure gives way to fiber optics and wireless communication.
- cableHeavy-duty woven line
- copperReddish-brown metallic element
- twisted pairWound wires reducing interference
- poleCylindrical shaft or extremity
- power linesElevated electrical conductors
lineman · dial tone · busy signal · dial up · receiver · cord · static · connection · strand · overhead · insulator · splicing · buzzing · transmission · switchboard · operator · landline · utility
- wire typesRomex
- cablescoaxial, ethernet, power cable, audio cable, video cable
- wire
- network cablingethernet cable, patch cable, Cat5e, data cable, Cat6
telephone wirefiber optic cable
Light-transmitting data wire
fiber optics · optical fiber · coaxial cable · ethernet cable · wireless signal
telephone wirewireless
Untethered signal transmission
wireless signal · radio · satellite · cellular network · Wi-Fi
telephone, wire, phone, telephony, telephonic, phoneme, phonetic, phonetics, phonology