Customer-friendly word for "landline"

[Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain@aeris.net)]

Oops. :(

I tend to also use the following site: http://www.telecomdictionary.com/Telecom_Dictionary_Definitions.asp for references.

Where "landline" is shown as:

Term	Definition
Landline	A conventional domestic or business telephone circuit. The term landline applies to telephone lines that are either buried or carried just over the ground.
Landline Network	The communications infrastructure that generally is associated with the public switched telephone network. (See also: landline.)
Radio Landline	A circuit that connects a cellular switching office to a cell site or to a public switched network. It also denotes any wireline circuit from a control station to remote transmitters or receivers.

Z

-----Original Message-----
From: Laura Lemay [mailto:lemay at lauralemay.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 10:52 AM
To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net)
Cc: Scott Prentice; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Customer-friendly word for "landline"


On Feb 4, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net)
wrote:
> Regardless of which, we _sometime_ refer internal people (and
> customers) to this:
>
> 	
> http://www.amazon.com/Newtons-Telecom-Dictionary-25th-Telecommunicatio
> ns/dp/0979387337/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1296841211&sr=8-1
>
> to explain any term as needed.

Amusingly, Newton's defines "landline" as:

"A terrestrial circuit, whether wired (i.e. twisted pair, coax, or fiber), or wireless (i.e.microwave or some other form of radio, or free space optics), or some combination.  A landline is different from a satellite link, which is not terrestrial in nature."

If I'm reading that right, a mobile phone is technically a landline.

Laura