private line

private line: 1. In telephone industry usage, a service that involves dedicated circuits, private switching arrangements, predefined transmission paths, or combination thereof, whether virtual or physical, and which provide communications between specific locations. 2. Among subscribers to the public switched telephone network (s), a one-party switched access line.

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