This is largely limited to the major incumbent carriers, such as Bell Canada and Telus, for traditional landline service ( but not Voice over Internet Protocol ( VoIP )).

Wireless, traditional landline telephone, and cable companies increasingly invade each others ' traditional markets and compete across a broad spectrum of activities.

Vonage recommends customers keep a basic traditional landline dedicated to their home alarm system and use Vonage for the rest of their calling needs.

Travelers can dial the three-digit telephone number 5-1-1 on traditional landline telephones and most mobile phones.

Over the past decade, TDC developed from a traditional and mainly Danish provider of landline and mobile telephony services into a Danish-based European provider of communications solutions.

Both traditional and VoIP landline phones were available.

Jajah's primary service, Jajah Web, takes an approach called web-activated telephony, using VoIP to connect traditional phones ( landline or mobile ).

Jajah Web connects existing traditional landline or mobile phones with calls that are set up via Jajah's Web site.

Prior to the Smartmodem, modems were almost entirely manual in operation, having developed from acoustic couplers that used a traditional telephone for dialling and hanging up.

Agents connect to the vendor's equipment through traditional PSTN telephone lines, or over Voice over IP.

One of the standards available for digital cable telephony, PacketCable, seems to be the most promising and able to work with the Quality of Service ( QOS ) demands of traditional analog Plain old telephone service ( POTS ) service.

In the past, it was a popular cliché with travel writers that Gibraltar still had traditional red British-style telephone boxes when there were just a few original ones in service.

Integrated Services Digital Network ( ISDN ) is a set of communications standards for simultaneous digital transmission of voice, video, data, and other network services over the traditional circuits of the public switched telephone network.

Apart from traditional telegraph and telephone services, China also had facsimile, low-speed data-transmission, and computer-controlled telecommunications services.

Commercial VoIP services are often competitive with traditional telephone service in terms of call quality even though QoS mechanisms are usually not in use on the user's connection to his ISP and the VoIP provider's connection to a different ISP.

In the US and Europe, telephone companies use IPTV ( often on ADSL or optical fiber networks ) as a means to compete with traditional local cable television monopolies.

Internet Protocol ( IP ) telephony ( also known as Voice over Internet Protocol, VoIP ), is a disruptive technology that is rapidly gaining ground against traditional telephone network technologies.

* Due to the major success of broadband Internet connections, Voice over IP begins to gain popularity as a replacement for traditional telephone lines.

Although the standards were completed, they were not as widely implemented as CS-1, partly because of the increasing power of the variants, but also partly because they addressed issues which pushed traditional telephone exchanges to their limits.

A ringer equivalency number of 1 represents the loading effect of a single " traditional " telephone ringing circuit, such as that within the Western Electric Model 500 telephone.

At the edge of the carrier access network in a traditional PSTN ( public switched telephone network ) scenario, the local loop terminates in a circuit switch housed in an incumbent local exchange carrier telephone exchange.

Because of the bandwidth efficiency and low costs that VoIP technology can provide, businesses are migrating from traditional copper-wire telephone systems to VoIP systems to reduce their monthly phone costs.

Most of the difficulties of creating a secure telephone connection over traditional phone lines, such as digitizing and digital transmission, are already in place with VoIP.

This system may be more prone to congestion and DoS attacks than traditional circuit switched systems ; a circuit switched system of insufficient capacity will refuse new connections while carrying the remainder without impairment, while the quality of real-time data such as telephone conversations on packet-switched networks degrades dramatically.

Telephones for traditional residential analog service are usually connected directly to telephone company phone lines which provide direct current to power most basic analog handsets independently of locally available power.

The susceptibility of phone service to power failures is a common problem even with traditional analog service in areas where many customers purchase modern telephone units that operate with wireless handsets to a base station, or that have other modern phone features, such as built-in voicemail or phone book features.

Wessex's history of failures preceding his success in 878 emphasised to Alfred that the traditional system of battle he had inherited played to the Danes ' advantage.

The system of Chinese astrology was elaborated during the Zhou dynasty ( 1046 – 256 BC ) and flourished during the Han Dynasty ( 2nd century BC to 2nd century AD ), during which all the familiar elements of traditional Chinese culture – the Yin-Yang philosophy, theory of the 5 elements, Heaven and Earth, Confucian morality – were brought together to formalise the philosophical principles of Chinese medicine and divination, astrology and alchemy.

This high-speed SDRAM cache was run at a divisor of the processor clock and was accessed via its own 64-bit bus, known as a " back-side bus " allowing the processor to both service system front side bus requests ( the rest of the system ) and cache accesses simultaneously verses the traditional approach of pushing everything through the front-side bus.

Chiefs and other leaders preside over customary, traditional courts, though all persons have the right to request that their case be considered under the formal British-based legal system.

Since the 12th century, courts have had parallel and co-equal authority to make law -- " legislating from the bench " is a traditional and essential function of courts, which was carried over into the U. S. system as an essential component of the " judicial power " specified by Article III of the U. S. constitution.

Most people and institutions in China primarily use the Indian ( Arabic ) system for convenience, with traditional Chinese numerals used mainly in some formal or ceremonial occasions such as on printed money.

From 1974 until 1982, different presidential administrations chose to focus on ending the persistent insurgencies that sought to undermine Colombia's traditional political system.

He did not, however, present it as a fourth age, but chose to retain the traditional three-age system.

The period is a transitional one but not outside of the traditional three-age system.

A traditional finger counting system still in use in many regions of Asia works in this way, and could help to explain the occurrence of numeral systems based on 12 and 60 besides those based on 10, 20 and 5.

The College functions on a quarter system, and one weekend each term is set aside as a traditional celebratory event, known on campus as " big weekends " or " party weekends ".

* Disabilities, Handicaps, or sicknesses: There are many students that are unable to go to a traditional school setting because they cannot get around easily or a low immune system and get sick from other students.

Casey and Lorenzen have identified another financial benefit for the institutions of the US, stating that distance education creates new graduates who might be willing to donate money to the school who would have never have been associated with the school under the traditional system.

Beginning with the 1967 election, the indigenous population abandoned its traditional policy of shunning the official political system and participated actively.

Twenty-six percent of Milwaukee students will receive public funding to attend schools outside the traditional Milwaukee Public School system.

An expert system has a unique structure, different from traditional programs.

But this solution has a defect: expert system runs slower than a traditional program because he consistently " thinks " when in fact a classic software just follows paths traced by the programmer.

supplementing the traditional EFTPOS swipe or chip system.

This view was elaborated in traditional Jain cosmology and Buddhist cosmology, which depicts the cosmos as a vast, flat oceanic disk ( of the magnitude of a small planetary system ), bounded by mountains, in which the continents are set as small islands.

* Fixed stakes – a traditional system of staking the same amount on each selection.

The basic role of the gamemaster is the same in almost all traditional role-playing games, although differing rule sets make the specific duties of the gamemaster unique to that system.

These products, which should not be confused with smokeless powders, aim to produce less fouling ( solid residue ), while maintaining the traditional volumetric measurement system for charges.

The GNU Project chose the microkernel server – client architecture for the operating system, due to perceived advantages over the traditional Unix monolithic kernel architecture.

Honduras's traditional system of independent banana producers, who, as late as the 1980s, sold their crops to the international banana companies, was eroded in the 1990s.