dial-tone

Under the new plan I pay a flat fee each month for dial-tone and I am then charged $0.10 per call.

Verizon Won't Verify Calls On My Bill - The Consumerist 2009

It's very much like a dial-tone with the phone held up to my ear.

Mechanical Closet Blues da_lj 2007

A reliance on dial-tone parenting, they-insist, keeps families, friends and neighbors from trading advice the old-fashioned way: in person.

Where You Can Turn 2008

Another quote from the blog: "Of course, we are not service providers, but our gear enables service providers cable, telecom, etc. to give the world "dial-tone" to the internet."

Cisco dude is quoting FSJ. Thanks! 2007

Does ANYONE remember the inventor of the dial-tone?

Cisco dude is quoting FSJ. Thanks! 2007

I also think we ought to try to encourage more people to participate in the political debate by ensuring that everyone who wants it can afford a decent connection to the internet (the same way that public policy now requires subsidizing free or low-cost dial-tone for low-income telephone users).

FEC May Regulate Blogging 2005

I call a local phone number on my cellphone, and get a dial-tone and I can dial anywhere for my VOIP rate. reply

Jajah Just Launched Killer VOIP Product Michael Arrington 2005

In developed countries universal access means ensuring that businesses and citizens can all get high-speed connections to the Internet, much as they now have universal dial-tone access to the traditional telephone system.

Keeping the Net Secure 2002

In developed countries universal access means ensuring that businesses and citizens can all get high-speed connections to the Internet, much as they now have universal dial-tone access to the traditional telephone system.

Keeping the Net Secure 2002

He likes überbright pants - lime green, sky blue, Day-Glo orange - often loaded with zippers, but he speaks in a Henry Kissinger dial-tone voice that promotes sound sleep.

SI.com 2010