Sentence examples for ordinary telephone from inspiring English sources

One reason for its popularity is that, because it avoids ordinary telephone networks, it is cheap.

Charlie was now dialing into the World Wide Web via an ordinary telephone line.

They also enable ordinary telephone lines to handle regular phone calls and high-speed data at the same time.

The beauty of D.S.L. is that it delivers fast Web connections to homes and small businesses over ordinary telephone lines.

The advantage is that these systems are 10 to hundreds of times faster than using an ordinary telephone line.

Most individuals and small businesses reach the Net through an Internet access provider, whose computers they contact over an ordinary telephone line.

But the latest version of the software, which is now being tested, allows Skype users to call ordinary telephones too.

Calls, whether to other DV326's or to ordinary telephones, are made by dialing a regular phone number.

If foreign or domestic terrorists strike the United States again, Tom Ridge and his crisis coordinators at the Office of Homeland Security now have a situation room of their own, a decidedly medium-tech operation of ordinary telephones, flat-screen television sets and off-the-shelf computers.

They went wandering around the streets at night, exclaiming over all the ordinary sights: telephone boxes and cars and garden shrubs.

The legislation, which was introduced after the 9/11 attacks, has been cited as the legal basis for the National Security Agency scouring billions of ordinary US telephone records in an effort to combat terrorism.