At 01:38 PM 4/02/2011, Ann Zdunczyk wrote: >I worked for Western Electric/AT&T/Lucent as a technical writer and I am >very familiar with POTS!!! It is what we called them.
That label is on one of the sockets on my Belkin ADSL router, which supports VOIP. I had to look it up to discover that it meant "for the landline phone". I don't think it's close to being an everyday term yet, though. ;-) BTW, "non-mobile" doesn't cover all landline phones, either. Our landline phone is a RF transmitter with two cordless handsets! I always stow one of the handsets in my jeans pocket when I'm outside weeding the garden! (Mobile phone, a.k.a. cellphone, in the other pocket.) Helen
