For $25 a month, Sprint offers unlimited weekend calling from traditional telephones and a rate of 10 cents a minute during the week.

Because Internet-based phone service rides over traditional telephone or cable lines, it will not work unless the conventional phone network is intact.

Interoperability between different providers has improved and the ability to call or receive a call from a traditional telephone is available.

We need to transition our members from working on the old traditional telephones to new forms of communication.

Let us illustrate the above by considering a traditional telephone system.

You will need the handsets from a pair of traditional telephones having carbon granule microphones.

Cellular telephone service is especially attractive in countries where phone service is poor and the waiting lists for traditional telephones years-long.

Some countries have leapfrogged over the use of traditional telephones into the wireless era, the report found.

The traditional telephone as we knew it is now a fading memory.

IN a little more than a year, he has signed up 100,000 customers who use his black box to connect their traditional telephone to the Internet.