Hardware or software that dials a telephone number. A dial-up adapter in earlier computers commanded the modem to dial an ISP's telephone number for Internet access. However, for remote machine ...
A dial plan allows people to call each other by dialing a number on the telephone. Dial plans include access codes, area codes, and specialized codes. The North American Public Switched Telephone ...
The switched telephone network regulated by government and administered by common carriers. Also called "plain old telephone system" (see POTS) and "public switched telephone network" (see PSTN). As ...