Telephone Service

Definition: Telephone Service

Telephone Service

Noun

1. A public utility that provides telephone service.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Telephone Service

Crosswords: Telephone Service

Books

• Instructions for the international telephone service : text in accordance with the decisions of the fifth, sixth, and seventh plenary assemblies of the CCITT (reference)

• The Cellular Telephone Directory: Your Complete Guide to All Cellular Telephone Service in North America (reference)

• After Divestiture: What the At&t Settlement Means for Business and Residential Telephone Service (Communications Library) (reference)

• Which Telephone Service Provider? The Official Guide to Choosing the Best Local Phone Service Provider for Business (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Celebrity Telephone Service (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Business

Demand for telephone service continues to surpass supply. (references)

Rural telephone service is open to different companies and technologies. (references)

New licenses for rural telephone service are open to different companies and technologies. (references)

Civil Liberties

Nigeria

The Government did not restrict Internet access, although unreliable and costly telephone service limited access and hindered service providers. (references)

Ecuador

On January 30, authorities cut off water and telephone service to approximately 4,000 indigenous protesters camped out at the Salesian Polytechnical University in Quito. (references)

Cape Verde

There were technical limitations on Internet use related to bandwidth and the unavailability or inefficiency of electricity and telephone service in some parts of the country. (references)

Economic History

Haiti

Local telephone service has been improving mainly due to competition. (references)

Bangladesh

The telephone service company is undermined by widespread corruption. (references)

Burma

Internet access is severely limited and telephone service is abysmal. (references)

Human Rights

Tunisia

Lawyers and activists stated in 2000 that the Government increased its practice of cutting off telephone service to activists. (references)

Yemen

Security forces regularly monitor telephone conversations and interfere with the telephone service of government critics and opponents. (references)

Belarus

The Ministry has the authority to terminate telephone service to those who breach this provision; however, there were no reports during the year that the Ministry exercised this authority. (references)

Political Economy

URUGUAY

Uruguay has long owned and operated state monopolies in petroleum, railways, telephone service, and port administration. (references)

MEXICO

Local, basic telephone service is technically open to competition, but practical competition in this area has not developed. (references)

MEXICO

Telmex's legal monopoly on long distance and international telephone service ended in August 1996, and competition was introduced in January 1997. There is competition in all major cities and much of the rest of Mexico. (references)

Travel

Mexico

Worldwide telephone service offer good connections. (references)

Armenia

Most parts of Yerevan already enjoy reliable direct-dial telephone service. (references)

Slovak Rep

Cellular GSM telephone service is commonly in use, with two major providers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "telephone service": plain old telephone service ♦ plan old telephone service ♦ wide area telephone service. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏خدمات الهاتف. (various references)

Chinese 

電話服務 . (various references)

Danish

telefontjeneste for stort område (WATS, wide area telephone service), telefonitjenesten (plan old telephone service, POTS), telefonisk nødhjælpstjeneste (telephone service for would-be suicides), POTS (plan old telephone service, POTS). (various references)

Dutch

telefonische dienst voor zelfmoordpreventie (telephone service for would-be suicides), verouderde telefoondienst (plan old telephone service, POTS), conventionele telefoondienst (plain old telephone service, POTS). (various references)

Finnish

tavallinen perinteinen puhelinpalvelu (plain old telephone service, POTS), perinteinen puhelinpalvelu (plan old telephone service, POTS). (various references)

French

service de téléphone. (various references)

German

Telefonseelsorge | Telephonseelsorge (telephone service for would-be suicides), herkömmlicher Fernsprechdienst (plain old telephone service, POTS), Großraumfernsprechdienst (WATS, wide area telephone service). (various references)

Greek 

υπηρεσία τηλεφωνίας (telephonic service), τηλεφωνική υπηρεσία (telephonic service). (various references)

Italian

servizio telefonico su area estesa (WATS, wide area telephone service), servizio telefonico per la prevenzione dei suicidi (telephone service for would-be suicides), servizio telefonico convenzionale (plain old telephone service, POTS). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

テレフタル酸 (telecommuting, telemark, telemarker, telemarketer, telemarketing, telemedicine, telementary, telemeter, telemetering, telemetry, telephone, telephone box, telephone card, telephone club, telephone marketing, telephone sex, Teleport, teleprinter, television documentary, telework, telewriting, terephtalic acid). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

テレホンサー�"ス . (various references)

Pig Latin

elephonetay ervicesay.(various references)

Portuguese

velho e comum sistema telefónico (plan old telephone service, POTS), serviço telefónico de prevenção do suicídio (telephone service for would-be suicides), serviço telefónico de grande zona (WATS, wide area telephone service), serviço telefónico convencional (plain old telephone service, POTS), POTS (plan old telephone service, POTS). (various references)

Russian 

междугородное/международное телефонное сообщение (long-distance telephone service). (various references)

Spanish

servicio telefónico convencional (plain old telephone service, plan old telephone service, POTS), servicio telefónico concertado en grandes zonas (WATS, wide area telephone service). (various references)

Swedish

vanlig telefoni (plain old telephone service, POTS), bastelefoni (plain old telephone service, POTS). (various references)

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