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for the building where the wires that go to telephone jacks throughout the building and wires that go to the exchange meet and can be connected in different configurations depending upon the subscribed telephone service. The wires between the junction box and the exchange are known as the
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Older houses often have 4-conductor telephone station cable in the walls color coded with Bell System colors: red, green, yellow, black as 2-pairs of 22 AWG (0.33 mm) solid copper; "line 1" uses the red/green pair and "line 2" uses the yellow/black pair. Inside the walls of the
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telephone service and digital subscriber line (DSL) phone cable service to the premises. Telephone overhead lines are connected to the public switched telephone network. The
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jacks. More often, only two of the wires are connected to the exchange as one telephone line, and the others are unconnected. In that case, the jacks in the house are
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at a subscriber's network interface is typically 48 V between the ring and tip wires, with tip near ground and ring at –48 V.
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which performed any necessary electrical switching to allow voice signals to be transmitted to more distant telephones.
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cables. Modern lines may run underground, and may carry analog or digital signals to the exchange, or may have
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system. It is designed to reproduce speech of a quality that is understandable. It is the physical
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Inside large buildings, and in the outdoor cables that run to the telephone company
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or other signaling medium connecting the user's telephone apparatus to the
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The vast majority of houses in the U.S. are wired with 6-position
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house—between the house's outside junction box and the interior
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network, and usually also implies a single telephone number for
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Cross section of telephone cable of 1,800 twisted pairs, 1922.
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Single-user circuit on a telephone communication system
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of open wire, separated by about 25 cm (10″) on
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Fixed telephone lines per 100 inhabitants, 1997–2007.
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Phone lines
Telephone Line (song)

Utility pole


circuit
communication
wire
telecommunications
billing
landline
voltage
Bell Telephone Company
local loop
end offices
copper
aluminium
balanced pairs
poles
twisted pair
a device that converts
analog signal
transmission
carrier system
data access arrangement
telephone hybrid
copper wires
tip and ring
telephone exchange

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