Phone network

/fˈəʊn nˈɛtwɜːk/

/fˈoʊn nˈɛtwɜːk/

[noun]

Phone network

[NOUN]

a telecommunication network allowing calls and messages to be sent and received between phones

Examples

1. So in a typical phone network, a frame might be eight bits.

2. So a phone network carves up the wire into a bunch of these little slots where each conversation is allocated one of these sort of frames in each interval.

3. Does anybody want to buy a used phone network?

4. And it's almost exactly the way that the phone network works now.