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private line

In the telephone industry usage, a service that involves dedicated circuits, private switching arrangements, and/or predefined transmission paths, whether virtual or physical, which provide communications between specific locations. Note: Among subscribers to the public switched telephone network(s), the term "private line" is often used to mean a one-party switched access line.

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