Customer-friendly word for "landline"

[John Posada]

"But I don't have a Desk Phone. My phone is on the kitchen counter".

:-)

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Butler, Darren J CTR USAF AFMC
WR-ALC/ENGLTB <Darren.Butler.ctr at robins.af.mil> wrote:
> Desk Phone?
>
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> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 4:24 PM
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> Subject: Customer-friendly word for "landline"
>
> I'm putting together a "se-Instead" glossary of terms to make our
> customent facing support content more accessible.
>
> We use the term landline phone differenciate from mobile phone and I
> don't like "landline".
>
> My target is 6th grade understanding. Anyone have any suggestions for
> inplace of landline?
>
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