At 11:45 AM -0500 1/5/10, Tony B wrote:
It's this kind of sloppy writing that makes the rest of us have to learn useless new words. I've never in my life heard the word "wireline" before today, and really can't see the need when "landline" works so well. Unless maybe we're talking about wired lines in the air? Even underwater lines lay on the ground.
It isn't an unknown term in the communications industry, I believe. From the Glossary of Telecommunications & Technology Terms at:
<http://www.netaction.org/broadband/glossary.html>
Wireline: A system that uses wires or cables to transmit signals instead of air-borne radio frequencies.
That's small consolation to someone who may not be IN the communications industry, of course.
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