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phone system

n. a communication system that transmits sound between distant points [syn: telephone system]

Usage examples of "phone system".

The Russian phone system stinks, and you don't want to use a flukey system for orders of that importance.

But he's logic for phone system, too, after they converted to Lunawide switching.

It would appear only that there had been a problem with the phone system, and a repair team had fixed it.

So her 'puter was wired into the phone system--- that meant he could call in to it, and with the right software he could go snooping around her hard drive, and with the encryption key he could lift things right off, and cross-load them right to Mary Pat's desk.

They'd just rolled off the tarmac when Price mated his portable computer with the aircraft's phone system.

Now, just hope that the local commie phone system didn't develop a bad connection somewhere between Ming's office and the switching center, and from the switching center to his flat, Chester thought.