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POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service)


Term
POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service)

Abbreviation
POTS

Definition
POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) refers to the standard telephone service that most homes use. In contrast, telephone services based on high-speed, digital communications lines, such as ISDN and FDDI, are not POTS. The main distinctions between POTS and non-POTS services are speed and bandwidth.

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