Plain Old Telephone Service
TRADITIONAL ANALOG VOICE LAND LINE TELEPHONE SERVICE
Plain Old Telephone System; Plain old telephone system; Plain Old Telephone Service; POTS - Plain Old Telephone Socket; Plain-old telephone service; POTS line
<communications> (POTS) The traditional voice service provided
by phone companies, especially when opposed to data services.
Note that the acronym POTS is sometimes expanded as "Plain Old
Telephone System" in which sense it is synonymous to {Public
Switched Telephone Network} but used somewhat derogatively.
(1998-05-18)