On 27 Mar 2006 at 21:43, Cotty wrote: > On 27/3/06, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >For instance, someone asked what POTS was earlier. POTS has been a > >standard term in the telephony industry for 20 years or more, it was a > >new term when the newer generation of telephony equipment started to > >surface in order to distinguish between new equipment and old equipment. > > It was me, Godders. > > It may have been a standard term in the US telephone industry for 20 > years, but it sure as hell has not been in the UK telephone industry > AFAIK. This is an international list boyo !! ;-)
When I was in training 20 years ago here in Oz we also used the POTS acronym, the telecoms industry is powered by acronyms and the POTS term simply meant a wired voice telephone service. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
