Assertion: phone system's line | /r/HasProperty | connected
Facets:
value: by way of a telephone company
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: A free long-distance telephone call (such as a 1-800 number or, less commonly, the information operator from another area code) was made using a regular telephone, and when the line was connected, a 2600 Hz tone from the blue box was fed into the mouthpiece of the telephone, causing the operator to be disconnected and a free long-distance line to be available to the blue box user.
text: The lines, sometimes called trunks, are connections to the global public switched telephony network (PSTN) by way of a telephone company.