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 !! ;-)
The acronym I was taught for POTS in electronics school was "Plain Ordinary Telephone System". As you well know, the phone system in Britain is neither plain nor ordinary! <VBG>
