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  1. Local telephone service

    Local telephone service is the provision of telecommunications network s and services within a limited geographic region. globalize USA date December 2010 Traditionally, local telephone service was provided ... Local Telephone Service Category Telephone services ru ... companies. Telephone call s outside of the local area provided for by these companies were patched ... by AT&T . Some providers of local services were regional Bell operating companies , but not all local telephone companies were a regional Bell operating company or tied to one at the local level ... structure. Many communities in the United States had Independent telephone company local telephone ... telephony party lines were commonplace. The local telephone company was responsible for providing equipment .... Local telephone companies also provided Private branch exchange PBX Private Branch Exchange services for local businesses that needed these switchboard and internal telecommunications services. Local telephone companies more recently become involved in providing Internet by DSL and dial up services. Local local loop telephone wires terminate at the central office telephone exchange , a structure containing the hardware needed to switch calls among telephone line local lines and long distance networks. Thus, when a call was placed by a customer outside the local calling area, the central ... cell phones have reduced the need for local telephone services while Digital subscriber line Internet service and other serivices give local companies new roles in the telecommunications industry. See also Access network Telephone Telephone exchange Regional Bell operating company Local access and transport ... did the nature of the technical services thus provided. At one time telephones were leased from the local phone company rather than sold outright to customers. Many customers had rotary telephone s that were ... offered via central office based technology although later PBXs also provided them. The role of the local ...   more details



  1. Plain old telephone service

    dialing Local telephone service Category 1 cable Twisted pair Foreign exchange office FXO Foreign ...No footnotes date December 2008 Plain old telephone service POTS is the voice grade telephone service that remains the basic form of residential and small business service connection to the telephone network in many parts of the world. The name is a retronym , and is a reflection of the telephone service still available after the advent of more advanced forms of telephony such as ISDN , mobile phone s and VoIP . POTS has been available almost since the introduction of the public telephone system in the late 19th century, in a form mostly unchanged to the normal user despite the introduction of Touch Tone dialing, electronic telephone exchange s and fiber optic communication into the public switched telephone network PSTN . The system was originally known as the Post Office Telephone Service System in many countries. The term was dropped as telephone services were removed from the control ... local loop presented to the customer for connection to telephone equipment is practically unchanged .... . Many telephone service providers attempt to achieve dial tone availability more than High availability 99.999 of the time the telephone is taken off hook . This is an often cited benchmark in marketing ... your own telephone wiring Category Telephone services bg de Plain old telephone service es POTS fr Plain Old Telephone Service it POTS lmo POTS nl POTS ja Plain Old Telephone Service pms POTS pl Plain Old Telephone Service ru POTS sv Plain old telephone service zh ... call ing assistance a standards compliant analog telephone interface including BORSCHT functions ... of service during most commercial power outages. The subscriber loop typically carries a load ... subscribers after computerization of telephone exchanges during the 1970s and 1980s. The services include ... switched telephone network Managed Facility Voice Network RJ11, RJ14, RJ25 RJ11 the type of telephone ...   more details



  1. Wide Area Telephone Service

    Refimprove date August 2007 In U.S. telecommunication s, a Wide Area Telephone Service WATS is a long distance calling long distance service offering for customer dial type telecommunications between a given customer user station and stations within specified geographic rate areas employing a single telephone line between the customer user location and the serving central office . Each access line may be arranged for either outward OUT WATS or inward IN WATS service, or both. ref FS1037C ref Offerings for fixed rate inter Local access and transport area LATA and intra LATA services are measured by zones and hours. In Outbound WATS the country is defined by Bands 0 through 5. Band zero is intrastate calling and bands 1 through 5 are interstate calls that are progressively further from the originating number. Historically the higher band number carries a higher price per month or per minute. These lines can be used for outbound long distance only not local. With long distance rates at historic lows, using regular business lines, OUTWATS service became obsolete late in the 20th century. With inward WATS , subscribers are issued a toll free telephone number , typically beginning with a designated toll free area code . INWATS service was introduced by AT&T in 1967 to reduce time spent by operators processing toll collect call s for businesses. The first inward WATS area code issued was 800, with 888, 877, and 866 area codes being planned and implemented in the 1990s, The 855 code was implemented in late 2010, and 844, 833 and 822 reserved for future expansion. Telephone users within a designated area may call an inward WATS telephone number without having to pay a toll charge the recipient pays for the calls at a flat rate or other predetermined rate. Growth of inward WATS exploded in the 1980s as technology allowed companies to build business with nationwide toll free 800 ... WATS service is available with Automatic Number Identification ANI , which could be described as an older ...   more details



  1. History of telephone service in Catalonia

    Orphan date February 2009 Cleanup date April 2007 RoughTranslation Catalan Telephone service in Catalonia ... public telephone service serving the whole region, the Catalonian government, or Mancomunitat de Catalunya ... de Catalunya . The Mancomunitat Plans to Supply Telephone Service Throughout Catalonia ... the contest to head the department. The Telephone Department was charged with bringing telephone service ... part of the Spanish National Telephone Company. 1928 Telephone service is instituted between ... control of the telephone service begins. Entry of Spain to the European Union and Deregulation of the Telephone Service The entry of Spain to the European Union leads to the promulgation of the Llei ... network operators, leading to improvements in telephone service. See also History of Catalonia ..., SA Use dmy dates date December 2010 DEFAULTSORT History Of Telephone Service In Catalonia ... it to private industry to create the infrastructure for telephone communications. The companies created only those lines which they thought would be profitable. There were two telephone companies in Catalonia ... by telephone. After Spanish prime minister and dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera abolished the Mancomunitat, work on the Catalan intercity telephone network was interrupted. It would not be completed for many ... telephone trials in the Iberian peninsula take place, between two lecture halls in the College of Industry, Barcelona. 26 December 1877 The first long distance telephone conference takes place, between Barcelona and Girona. 1884 A royal decree establishes a state monopoly over all telephone services. 1886 The take over of phone service by private companies is authorized due to lack of interest on the part of the Spanish government. 20 April 1896 An intercity telephone line between Barcelona ... of the Directorate General of the Post Office, the use of Catalan is prohibited in intercity telephone communications. 20 June 1896 By royal decree, the use of Catalan in intercity telephone and telegram ...   more details



  1. Dryden Municipal Telephone Service

    service. References reflist External links http www.dmts.biz Official website Canadian mobile phone ...   more details



  1. Ontario Telephone Service Commission

    The Ontario Telephone Service Commission OTSC was a quasi judicial regulatory agency which regulated independent telephone companies that is, those other than Bell Canada in Ontario, Canada Ontario , Canada . It reported to the provincial legislature through the minister of transportation and communications. It served as the regulator for the independent companies until April 26, 1994, when a decision by the Supreme Court of Canada in the case T l phone Guevremont Inc. v. Quebec R gie des t l communications , 1994 1 S.C.R. 878 transferred Canada s provincially regulated telephone companies to federal jurisdiction, meaning that they would be regulated by the Canadian Radio television and Telecommunications Commission . References Grindlay, Thomas. A History of the Independent Telephone Industry in Ontario . 1975. Category Ontario government departments and agencies Category Communications in Ontario Category Communications authorities ...   more details



  1. Mobile Telephone Service

    refimprove date December 2010 The Mobile Telephone Service MTS is a pre cellular network cellular Very high frequency VHF radio system that links to the Public Switched Telephone Network PSTN . MTS was the radiotelephone equivalent of land dial phone service. As of 2005 , only rural and wilderness areas were still using the system. The Mobile Telephone Service was one of the earliest mobile telephone ... Mobile Telephone Service IMTS . Channels MTS uses 25 VHF radio channels in the United States ... Mobile Telephone Service IMTS Mobile telecommunications standards Category Telecommunications ... switched telephone network land line the call would be routed to a mobile operator, who would route .... This service originated with the Bell System , and was first used in St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis ... channels across 3 bands See IMTS frequencies . This service was used at least into the 1980s in large ... n telephone dial that, when changed to digits, form for 12 channel mobile sets 55, 57, 95 and 97. class ... of the service These channels are prone to network congestion and Interference communication interference ... powerful signal. The service uses technology that has been manufacturer discontinued for more than .... Cellular service resolved this congestion problem very effectively, especially since cellular frequencies ... using the service must struggle to keep their equipment operating, either by cannibalizing from retired ... frequency frequencies are now used for local Paging telecommunications paging services. They are only found in some parts of rural North America, having been replaced in most areas by cellular service in the 1980s or later. The service territory of Northwestel has only eliminated ten MTS locations since ... Great Slave Lake region, the Mackenzie River and the Mackenzie Delta. As noted above, cellular service ... telephone operator. Outgoing calls were placed when the operator connected to a base station ... MTS services due to the reasons above they could not meet the service demand except by switching ...   more details



  1. Postal, telegraph and telephone service

    unsourced article date November 2008 A postal, telegraph, and telephone service or PTT is or was a government government agency agency responsible for mail postal mail , telegraph , and telephone services. Such monopoly monopolies existed in many countries, though not in North America or Japan . Many PTTs have been partially or completely privatization privatized in recent years. In some of those privatizations, the PTT was renamed completely, whereas in others, the name of the privatized corporation has been only slightly modified, such as PT Telecom in Indonesia . Monopoly service In countries that had a PTT unit of government, typically the vast majority of forms of distribution of information fell under the auspices of the PTT, whether that be the delivery of printed publications and individual letters in the postal mail, the transmission of telephonic audio, or the transmission of telegraphic on off signals, and in some countries, the radio broadcasting broadcast of one way audio radio and television audio video television signals . In many countries with a current or former PTT, the PTT also was responsible for the manufacture and standardization of telephone equipment. Often the presence of a single PTT in a country implied a single monolithic approach to the distribution of information in that country, which as an advantage permitted efficient deployment of a single national standard for each topic instead of on going debate about competing ideas, but which as a disadvantage ... deployed. Mixed service In North America, instead of a PTT there was the private monopoly Bell System in telecommunications and a separate federally run US Postal Service Canada Post for mail delivery ... Correios, Telefones e Tel grafos , a public company, as the owner of the telephone system in the rest ...?id WpmzcqmgMbAC&dq universal service and rate restructuring in telecommunications&printsec frontcover&source ... result PPP1,M1 Universal Service and Rate Restructuring in Telecommunications , Organisation for Economic ...   more details



  1. Improved Mobile Telephone Service

    Mobile Telephone Service IMTS is a 0G pre cellular Very High Frequency VHF Ultra High Frequency UHF radio system that links to the Public Switched Telephone Network PSTN . IMTS was the radiotelephone equivalent of land dial phone service. It was introduced in 1964 as a replacement to Mobile Telephone Service or MTS and improved on most MTS systems by offering direct dial rather than connections ... telephone system includes three frequency bands, VHF Low 35 44  MHz, 9 channels , VHF High 152 158  MHz, 11 channels , and UHF 454 460  MHz, 12 channels . See Improved Mobile Telephone Service ... paging, so after a few years, the predominant provider of mobile telephone service was the Bell System companies. A given provider might have offered service on one, two, or all three bands, although IMTS was never offered on low band only MTS, but Whidbey Telephone in Washington State had a custom ... in the US Mobile Telephone System and the Improved Mobile Telephone Service. The low band Z prefixed ... waiting lists of up to 3 years for those wishing to have mobile telephone service. These potential ... to obtain a mobile telephone number and mobile phone service. These limitations resulted in low quantity ... one U.S. company near the Canadian border was known to offer IMTS service. Also Schuykill Mobile Phone ... license.jsp?licKey 7187 ULS License Paging and Radiotelephone License WRV255 WIKSTROM TELEPHONE COMPANY, INC Bot generated title ref Northwestel was known to offer Mobile Telephone Service MTS service in northern Canada, but has been withdrawing service from some areas. ref http www.crtc.gc.ca ... to allow the base station to service another call. Mobiles would originate calls by sending a burst ... of 0.6 watts. Mobile installations normally consisted of a head unit or the telephone handset which ..., telephone. Unlike cellular handsets, these units passed through a dial tone when the receiver was lifted from the cradle and in this way seemed more like a landline telephone than a cellular ...   more details



  1. Telephone Preference Service

    refimprove date January 2009 The Telephone Preference Service TPS is a United Kingdom UK opt out telephone list that is intended to prevent telemarketing calls to those who do not wish to receive them. The list is administered on behalf of Ofcom by the British direct marketing industry, who also run the Mailing Preference Service and Fax Preference Service . In 2005, the BBC reported that there were 10.5 million numbers registered. ref Citation date 2 November 2005 title Fines may rise for silent calls publisher BBC url http news.bbc.co.uk 2 hi business 4395624.stm accessdate 2009 01 30 ref At the end of the year 2007, 14.8 million numbers were registered. ref Citation title Canada s National Do Not Call List publisher Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario url http www.ipc.on.ca images Resources donotcall 845611267500.pdf accessdate 2009 01 30 ref The TPS should not be confused with the Government Telephone Preference Scheme which refers exclusively to the system used by the General Post Office since 1952 and later BT Group BT to keep selected telephones operating during wartime when access to the telephone system by the general public would be denied. History Residential users have been able to register on the list since May 1999 under the Telecommunications Data Protection and Privacy Regulations 1999. The list has statutory force under the Privacy and Electronic Communications EC Directive Regulations 2003 . From 25 June 2004 corporate subscribers were also allowed to register on the list under Privacy and Electronic Communications EC Directive Amendment Regulations 2004 Exemptions Companies can still contact their own customers regardless of TPS to offer new products and services so long as the customer has already notified you that they do not object to receiving such calls http www.ico.gov.uk upload documents library data protection practical application ... Service United States National Do Not Call Registry External links http www.tpsonline.org.uk Official ...   more details



  1. Local Authority Fire Service

    Kingdom the terms Local Authority Fire and Rescue Service , County Fire & Rescue Service or Public Fire and Rescue Service refer to a fire and rescue service provided and operated by a county or metropolitan council to serve the public in an emergency. In simple terms they are the fire service which respond to emergency 999 emergency telephone number 999 calls from members of the public . Examples of county, public or local authority fire and rescue services include the London Fire Brigade , West Midlands Fire Service and Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service for instance. Collectively each county public local authority fire service is referred to as the United Kingdom Fire and Rescue Service. It is the primary land rescue agency in the UK. In England and Wales by virtue of the Fire ... and Rescue Service to serve the public in an emergency. Whilst fire services are operated at local authority ... along with their Local Authority Fire Service counterparts. The Defence Fire and Rescue Service ... as a Local Authority Fire Service. Royal Air Force Firefighting and Rescue Service Also ... Service in the UK Each Local Authority Public Fire Service collectively form the primary firefighting ... of Communities and Local Government DCLG Statutory Duties A Local Authority County Public Fire and Rescue Service not only has statutory duties to respond to emergencies, but also has additional ... three main emergency services Police , Ambulance and HM Coastguard , LA PS Fire Service personnel ... no occasion where a public fire service can not legally gain entry to premises or property ... fire service is known as a Fire Authority the Term Fire and Rescue Authority now become popular ... of the fire service, to ensure that it serves the public properly. Day to day command and control of the Fire Service is overseen by a Chief Fire Officer the highest ranking officer in the service. Non Local Authority Public Fire & Rescue Services There are several non local authority public Fire and Rescue ...   more details



  1. Local service district

    A local service district LSD is a unit of rural district rural municipal government in the Canada Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador which cover areas outside incorporated city cities , town s and village s for provision of municipal services such as fire protection, garbage disposal and sewage. New Brunswick There are 269 LSDs in New Brunswick, covering all unincorporated areas. LSD boundaries often but not always coincide with parish subnational entity parishes . These districts have elected advisory committees that have little legal or tax power, but work with the New Brunswick Department of Local Government to oversee municipal services. LSDs and incorporated villages are being informed about a new voluntary form of local government known as a rural community . Rural Communities have more power than LSDs but are still not considered incorporated. There is currently one Rural Community, Beaubassin East, which surrounds the Village of Cap Pele in New Brunswick. The Village of St Andre and the surrounding LSD have recently decided to form a rural community. Thirteen LSDs on the Acadian Peninsula were looking at the possibility of forming a rural community in the spring of 2006, but only one of the LSDs Saumarez voted yes, while the remaining twelve voted against it. See List of local service districts in New Brunswick See List of Rural Communities in New Brunswick Newfoundland and Labrador In Newfoundland and Labrador, LSDs cover only areas where residents petition to create one. If one is formed, an advisory committee of five to seven members ... links http www.gnb.ca 0370 0022 e.pdf New Brunswick Local Service District Advisory Committees http www.canlii.org nl laws regu 1996r.747 20051121 whole.html Newfoundland and Labrador Local Service District Regulations Category Types of country subdivisions Category Local government in New Brunswick Category Local government in Newfoundland and Labrador fr District de services locaux ...   more details



  1. Local Multipoint Distribution Service

    Category Networking standards Category IEEE standards es LMDS eu LMDS fr Local Multipoint Distribution Service lv LMDS nl LMDS pl LMDS pt LMDS fi LMDS sv Local Multipoint Distribution Service ...   more details



  1. Local News Service

    The name Local News Service refers to a variety of news resource share services all started in 2008 and 2009. It sometimes does not refer to a specific sharing service but to the category in general. Typically, these services include Press pool pooling video crews to cover routine events and sharing helicopter s used for newsgathering. News share services class wikitable Market Station Owner rowspan 2 Philadelphia ref http www.broadcastingcable.com article 116337 Fox NBC Try AP Approach to Local TV.php?q Local News Service ref ref http www.broadcastingcable.com article 116325 UPDATE Fox and NBC Want To Take Joint News Service National.php ref WCAU NBC Universal WTXF TV Fox Television Stations rowspan 3 Washington, DC ref name dcLNS http www.broadcastingcable.com article 259012 Gannett Fox NBC Share in DC.php?rssid 20065 ref WUSA TV WUSA Gannett Company Gannett WRC TV NBC Universal WTTG Fox Television Stations rowspan 2 Boston ref name bosLNS http www.broadcastingcable.com article 232934 WFXT WBZ to Share in Boston.php?rssid 20065 ref WFXT Fox Television Stations WBZ TV CBS Corporation rowspan 4 Chicago ref name be1 http broadcastengineering.com news chicago stations join 0508 ref WGN TV Tribune Broadcasting WFLD Fox Television Stations WBBM TV CBS Corporation WMAQ TV NBC Universal rowspan 3 Phoenix ref name fxscripps http www.broadcastingcable.com article 191108 Fox Scripps Create Local News Service.php?rssid 20099&q Local News Service ref KSAZ TV Fox Television Stations KNXV TV The E.W. Scripps Company Scripps KPHO TV Meredith Corporation Meredith rowspan 2 Cleveland ref name be1 WKYC TV Gannett WOIO Raycom Media rowspan 2 Columbus, OH ref name fxscripps WCMH TV Media General WSYX WTTE Sinclair Broadcast Group Sinclair rowspan 3 Atlanta ref name atlLNS http www.broadcastingcable.com article 232664 Atlanta Stations Set to Share.php?rssid 20065&q news share ref WAGA TV ... article 277903 Three L A Stations To Begin Local News Video Share June 15.php?rssid 20065 ...   more details



  1. Local conventions for writing telephone numbers

    Refimprove date December 2008 Every country has different local conventions for writing telephone numbers . Writing a telephone number in a different format will look strange to a resident, and may lead to incorrect dialing when area codes are omitted for local calls. All numbers on this page are written ..., there are also a number of Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom Special service numbers special ... telephone numbering in India numbering plan . Mobile numbers which are not local need to be prefixed ... 61 A BBBB BBBB or 61 4MM MBB BBB. When written for a local audience, the Telephone numbering plan Open ... premium rate telephone numbers are written 90x NNN NNNN where x varies according to the type of service ... for local calls in some metro area s, the notation in those areas has sometimes changed. The area ... Public Service Commission s choice of area code 470 470 for the next overlay code. In Canadian English ... XXX XXXX or 333 XXX XXXX . Europe Denmark Telephone numbers in Denmark Danish telephone numbers are 8 ... years it has also become common to write them in two groups of four, AAAA AAAA France Telephone numbers in France French telephone numbers are 10 digits long written in groups of two separated by spaces ... Telephone numbers in Germany German telephone numbers have no fixed length for area code and subscriber number. There are many ways to format a telephone number in Germany. The most prominent is DIN ... BBBBBB XX DIN 5008 international 49  AAAA  BBBBBB E.123 local 0AAAA   BBBBBB E.123 international ... BB Note the blocks go from right to left The very old format and E.123 local form are often used by older people. Italy See Telephone numbers in Italy Netherlands Telephone numbers in the Netherlands ... are assigned the 1 digit area code 6, leaving 8 digits for the subscriber s number 06 BBBBBBBB . Service ... code 31 AA BBBBBBBB, 31 6 BBBBBBBB, etcetera. Norway Telephone numbers in Norway Norwegian telephone ... it easy to determine if the B number is Short message service SMS capable. Mobile numbers start with 4 ...   more details



  1. Basic Exchange Telephone Radio Service

    The Basic Exchange Telephone Radio Service or BETRS is a fixed radio service where a multiplexing multiplexed , digital radio link is used as the last segment of the local loop to provide wireless telephone service to subscribers in remote areas. BETRS technology was developed in the mid 1980s and allows up to four subscribers to use a single radio channel communications channel pair, Simultaneity simultaneous ly, without Interference communication interfering with one another. In the United States U.S. , this service may operate in the paired 152 158 and 454 459 Megahertz MHz bands and on 10 channel block s in the 816 820 861 865  MHz bands. BETRS may be licensed only to U.S. state state certified carriers in the area where the service is provided and is considered a part of the public switched telephone network PSTN by state regulators. Regulation of this service currently resides in parts 1 and 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations CFR , Subtitle 47 on Telecommunications , and may be researched or ordered through the Government Printing Office GPO . Source Federal Communications Commission Wireless Bureau External links http www.fcc.gov Federal Communications Commission website http www.gpo.gov Government Printing Office website Category Local loop Category Mobile telecommunications standards ...   more details



  1. Call Me Mr. Telephone (Answering Service)

    Call Me Mr. Telephone Answering Service is a 1985 single by teenage singer, Cheyne singer Cheyne . The single did not crossover to the Hot 100 , but Cheyne sole hit record peaked at number sixty two,on the soul chart and was a number one dance hit for one week. start box succession box before Do You Wanna Get Away by Shannon singer Shannon title Hot Dance Club Play U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play number one dance hits of 1985 USA number one single years June 8, 1985 after I Wonder If I Take You Home by Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam end box References Joel Whitburn s, Presents, Top R&B Hip Hop Singles 1942 2004 , 2004 Joel Whitburn s, Hot Dance Disco 1974 2003 , 2004 Category 1985 singles Category Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs number one singles ...   more details



  1. Local Security Authority Subsystem Service

    Unreferenced date July 2009 Local Security Authority Subsystem Service LSASS , is a Process computing process in Microsoft Windows operating system s that is responsible for enforcing the security policy on the system. It verifies users logging on to a Windows computer or server, handles password changes, and creates access token s. It also writes to the Windows Security Log . Forcible termination of tt lsass.exe tt will result in the Welcome screen losing its accounts, prompting a restart of the machine. External links http www.microsoft.com technet security topics identitymanagement idmanage p2pass 1.mspx MS identity management http www.processlibrary.com directory files lsass ProcessLibrary.com lsass.exe info http www.fileinspect.com fileinfo lsass exe FileInspect detailed lsass.exe information http whatisprocess.com lsass exe 16 What Is Process lsass.exe information http www.neuber.com taskmanager process lsass.exe.html User experiences and ratings of lsass.exe Windows Components Category Microsoft Windows security technology Category Windows NT architecture Category Access control software Category Windows components fr Local Security Authority Subsystem Service no Local Security Authority Subsystem Service pl LSASS pt LSASS ru Local Security Authority Subsystem Service zh ...   more details



  1. Telephone

    system, also known as plain old telephone service POTS , commonly handles both control and audio ... the exchange to disconnect the telephone call call . Calls to parties beyond the local exchange ... Diaphragm acoustics diaphragm . The resulting current is transmitted along the telephone line to the local ... battery, which required periodic service. For the next half century, the network behind the telephone ... and South Korea have switched to this digital telephone service. A January 2005 Newsweek article suggested ... POTS plain old telephone service , IP telephony services are also competing with mobile phone services ... the communications device. For other uses, see Telephone disambiguation . Infobox general name Phone image Alt Telefon.jpg caption An Olivetti rotary dial rotary dial telephone , c.1940s The telephone ... telephone has been adapted to many languages and is widely recognized around the world. All telephones ... which makes a sound to alert the owner when a call is coming in, and a Telephone keypad keypad or in older phones a telephone dial or no manual device to enter the telephone number of the telephone .... A landline telephone is connected by a pair of wires to the telephone network, while a mobile phone or cell phone is portable and communicates with the telephone network by radio . A cordless telephone has a portable handset which communicates by radio with a base station connected by wire to the telephone network, and can only be used within a limited range of the base station. The microphone ... through the public switched telephone network telephone network to the other phone, where they are converted ... simultaneously. The telephone network, consisting of a worldwide net of telephone line s, fiberoptic ... undersea telephone cables connected by switching center s, allows any telephone in the world to communicate with any other. Each telephone line has an identifying number called its telephone number . To initiate a telephone call , a conversation with another telephone, the user enters the other telephone ...   more details



  1. Union des Employes de Service, Local 298 v. Bibeault

    SCCInfoBox case name U.E.S., Local 298 v. Bibeault full case name Syndicat national des employ s de la Commission scolaire r gionale de l Outaouais CSN v. Union des employ s de service, local 298 FTQ and Mr. R al Bibeault and Labour Court heard date October 29, 30, 1986 decided date December 22, 1988 history ruling Appeal Dismissed ratio SCC 1986 1987 Majority Beetz J. Union des Employes de Service, Local 298 v. Bibeault , 1988 2 S.C.R. 1048 is a leading decision of the Supreme Court of Canada on judicial review in Canadian administrative law . In this decision the court first described the pragmatic and functional approach ref name para. 122 para. 122 ref to determining the standard of review for an administrative decision and provided reasons for its desirability. Background A labour dispute in Quebec over whether a subcontractor had to keep the same benefits as its predecessor resulted in a judgment that the original decision, that it did not, was maintained. Opinion The court replaced the preliminary questions doctrine found in L Acadie case ref Syndicat des employ s de production du Qu bec et de l Acadie v. Canada Labour Relations Board, 1984 2 S.C.R. 412 ref with the pragmatice and functional Approach. This approach involves several considerations, such as the fact that the court examines not only the wording of the enactment conferring jurisdiction on the administrative tribunal, but the purpose of the statute creating the tribunal, the reason for its existence, the area of expertise of its members and the nature of the problem before the tribunal. ref name para. 122 See also List of Supreme Court of Canada cases Pushpanathan v. Canada Minister of Citizenship and Immigration References reflist External links lexum scc2 1988 2 1048 30 DEFAULTSORT Union Des Employes De Service, Local 298 V. Bibeault Category Canadian administrative case law Category Supreme Court ... Category Canada labour case law Category Service Employees International Union canada law stub ...   more details



  1. .local

    Refimprove date June 2009 Infobox Top level domain name local background ADFF2F introduced type Pseudo domain style host suffix status Not in root but used by the mDNS protocol. registry Machines on the local net can automatically register an address. sponsor intendeduse network discovery and configuration actualuse Local Area Network name resolution restrictions structure document http developer.apple.com macosx bonjour Developer page disputepolicy website http www.apple.com macosx features bonjour Mac OS X features local is a pseudo top level domain used in multicast DNS multicast domain name service mDNS of zero configuration networking discovery protocols. Apple Inc. Apple s Bonjour software Bonjour implements mDNS, as does Avahi software Avahi . If a computer running Mac OS X is not assigned a domain name, it identifies itself as tt hostname .local tt . Name resolution issues may arise if multicast DNS software is used in conjunction with a network that implements the tt local tt toplevel DNS domain. Despite not being a valid top level domain in the Internet, considerable DNS traffic exists, querying the tt local tt domain in the public Domain Name System. ref cite web url http www.circleid.com posts 20090618 most popular invalid tlds should be reserved title Most Popular Invalid TLDs Should Be Reserved publisher Circle ID author George Kirikos ref In June 2009, the L root server received more than 400 such queries per second, ref cite web url http stats.l.root servers.org cgi bin dsc grapher.pl?window 604800&plot qtype vs all tld&server L root title Most popular TLDs queried on the L server accessdate 2009 06 26 archiveurl http www.webcitation.org 5jpmlWGWt archivedate ... ARPA tt , and tt .net NET tt . References reflist GTLD DEFAULTSORT LOCAL Category Domain name system Category Pseudo top level domains Compu domain stub ca .local da .local es .local it .local hu .local no .local ru .local sv Toppdom n Generiska toppdom ner ...   more details



  1. Local

    Wiktionarypar local Local usually refers to something nearby, or in the immediate area. It may be used in many ways, some of which are related to this general meaning, others which are not Local, local anesthesia Local, a.k.a. union local or local union Local, stamp issued by a local post mail system It would seem logical for some collectors to collect locals in this sense, but if so, our Local post article makes no mention, so as far as articles are concerned local is just what the dictionary says about the general purpose adjective Local, a.k.a. public house Local comic Local comic In computing Local variable in programming languages .local , network address component See also Local structures, according to terms of locality in astronomy Local food Local property , in mathematics Local ring , in mathematics Local theories, re physics principle of locality Local H , band Inflections of word local Localism disambiguation Locality disambiguation Localization disambiguation Locus disambiguation Locale lookfrom local intitle local disambig de Lokal es Local fr Local sk Lok l ...   more details



  1. The Local

    About the online news portal the United Kingdom British convenience store First Quench Retailing The Local is an English language online news portal localised for Sweden and Germany . The German and Swedish sites, while alike in appearance, have separate editorial teams, each focused on its respective market. ref http www.thelocal.se 10188 The Local launches new sister site in Germany . The Local . February 29, 2008. ref Coverage is purely domestic in each country, and includes current events, politics, business, sports and culture, as well as analysis and opinion. There are also guides to Swedish and German society aimed at English speaking foreigners and a who s who of local celebrities. The company also owns expat discussion forums Toytown Germany and English Forum in Switzerland . The original Swedish edition began in 2004. The German edition was launched in 2008. The sites had a combined readership of a million unique visitors per month in January 2008. ref http www.dagensmedia.se nyheter article18294.ece The Local spr nger miljonvallen . Dagens Media . February 2, 2009. ref The Local s founders are Managing Director Paul Rapacioli, formerly a director of reed.co.uk ref http news.bbc.co.uk 2 hi uk news 2222735.stm Paying to Look Good at Work . BBC News . August 29, 2002 ref and Managing Editor James Savage, formerly a radio journalist and PR consultant. ref http www.globalradionews.com ... the local Vad vill utl nningar l sar om Sverige, The Local? . Mediev rlden . February 2, 2009 ... in Bavaria . Deutsche Welle . August 13, 2005. ref The Local s Swedish edition was nominated ... . Mediev rlden . September 14, 2009. ref In January 2010 The Local acquired thelocal.com from First ... Reflist External links http www.thelocal.com The Local Europe s news in English http www.thelocal.se The Local Sweden s news in English http www.thelocal.de The Local Germany s news in English http ... Category German websites Category News websites fr The Local sv The Local tr The Local ...   more details



  1. Woodbury Telephone

    introduced internet service with broadband access. Other historical notes Woodbury Telephone was the only local telephone operating company SBC AT&T owned that had no roots in the original AT&T or Alexander Graham Bell . There were five other independent telephone companies that served parts of Connecticut ...Infobox Defunct Company company name The Woodbury Telephone Company company logo Image with inadequate rationale removed Image AT&T logo horizontal .svg 150px AT&T logo fate Dissolved successor Southern New England Telephone foundation 1870 defunct 2007 location Woodbury, CT , United States U.S. industry Telecommunications key people products Plain old telephone service Local Telephone Service num employees parent Southern New England Telephone SNET 1997 2007 subsid The Woodbury Telephone Company was a telephone company serving Woodbury, Connecticut Woodbury , Southbury, Connecticut Southbury and Bethlehem, Connecticut . It is now owned by AT&T . Woodbury Telephone was acquired by Southern New England Telecommunications in 1997 ref http doddcenter.uconn.edu findaids SNET MSS19970122.html ref , approximately one year later SNET merged with SBC Communications . It continued as a separate operating company of Southern New England Telephone and at the time of its merger was the 75th largest independent telephone carrier in the United States. ref http articles.courant.com 1992 09 28 business 0000111966 1 local telephone telephone companies woodbury telephone ref On June 1, 2007, the company was dissolved and merged all assets and operations into Southern New England Telephone . At the time ... 1 snet woodbury s president woodbury telephone ref History Woodbury Telephone began operation in the 1870s when a local businessman, Mr. Charles A. Stone visited the Philadelphia Centennial ... Station via the telephone. The company grew modestly and was incorporated in 1910 with Arthur D ... to a direct dial system in 1955. As the service area grew considerably in the 1970s and 1980s ...   more details



  1. Telephone company

    File Bell Edison Telephone Building.jpg thumb 340px The Edison Bell Telephone Company building of 1896 in Birmingham, England A telephone company also known as a telco , telecommunications operator , communications service provider , or CSP is a service provider of telecommunications services such as telephony and data communication s access. Many were at one time nationalized or state regulated monopoly monopolies . These monopolies are often referred to, primarily in Europe, as Postal Telegraph and Telephone s PTTs . Telephone companies are common carrier s, and in the United States are also called Local Exchange Carrier s LECs . With the advent of cellular telephony , telephone companies now include wireless carrier s, or mobile network operator s. Most telephone companies now also function as internet service provider s ISPs , and the distinction between a telephone company and an ISP may disappear completely over time, as the current trend for supplier convergence in the industry continues. Popular culture Comedian Lily Tomlin frequently satirized the telephone industry and the country s then dominant Bell System in particular with a sketch comedy skit playing the telephone operator ... by replacing landline s with cell phone s. See also colbegin 2 Bell Telephone Company , forerunner of AT&T in the U.S. ITSP Internet Telephony Service Provider ITSP CLEC Competitive Local Exchange Carrier CLEC in the U.S. Communications Service Provider History of the telephone ILEC Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier ILEC of the Bell System List of telephone operating companies List of mobile network operators Mobile network operator PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network PSTN RBOC Regional Bell Operating Company RBOC in the U.S. Service provider Telecommunications Service Provider The Phone Company , free, non commercial email to fax service VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol VoIP colend References ... links http www.villagetelco.org Village Telco site about microtelcos DEFAULTSORT Telephone Company ...   more details




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