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  2. Party line (telephony) - Wikipedia

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    A party line (multiparty line, shared service line, party wire) is a local loop telephone circuit that is shared by multiple telephone service subscribers. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Party line systems were widely used to provide telephone service, starting with the first commercial switchboards in 1878. [ 4 ]

  3. Chat line - Wikipedia

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    A chat line is a service that allows people to meet and talk with others via telephone call. When multiple people can join the call, they are also called party lines . However, more recent [ when? ] chat lines are similar to CB radio in which a number of people both listen and speak together.

  4. Telephone call - Wikipedia

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    The call may use land line, mobile phone, satellite phone or any combination thereof. When a telephone call has more than one called party it is referred to as a conference call. When two or more users of the network are sharing the same physical line, it is called a party line or Rural phone line. U.S. President Gerald Ford on the phone

  5. Supervision (telephony) - Wikipedia

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    Calling party control (CPC), or forward disconnect, is a telecommunication signal sent from a central office to the telephone subscriber's equipment to indicate that the calling party has hung up. This indicates that answering machines should stop recording, notifies conference call bridges that a participant has left or removes an abandoned ...

  6. Called party - Wikipedia

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    The called party (in some contexts called the "B-Number") is a person who (or device that) answers a telephone call. The person who (or device that) initiates a telephone call is the calling party. [1] In some situations, the called party may number more than one. Such an instance is known as a conference call. In some systems, only one called ...

  7. Manage conversations in AOL Mail

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    Click on the conversation where the email is located. Click the More Icon | click Delete Message. Delete a full conversation. Locate the thread you want to delete. Click in the box to the left of the message. Click Delete at the top of your Inbox.

  8. Party line - Wikipedia

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    Party line or Party Line may refer to: Party line (politics) , the agenda of a political party Party line (telephony) , a system where multiple telephone customers are connected to the same phone line

  9. Talk:Party line (telephony) - Wikipedia

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    On a two-party line with separate ringers for each, one bell went from tip to ground; on the other party on the same line the bell went from ring to ground. This worked only on the old dial telephones with the mechanical bell — the standard for private line is bell connected between tip and ring, so a modern electronic handset is a two-wire ...