fixed telephone
telephone
verb[ I or T ]
 COMMUNICATIONSuk /ˈtelɪfəʊn/us
to communicate with someone using a phone; to phone someone:
Before you invest, telephone the Shareholder Service Center to get an account number.
Sometimes, it's quicker and easier to telephone, rather than sending an email.
For more information, telephone the number at the bottom of the screen.

Examples of telephone

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Most contact with adult grandchildren tends to be by telephone or letter.
If they declined, families were offered a variety of other options, including telephone contact.
Care managers communicated with treating psychiatrists and psychotherapists via printed reports, voice messages, electronic messages, live telephone calls, or in-person conversations depending on clinical urgency.
They encouraged patients to book appointments by telephone.
In the absence of reliable telephones, every step in the interview process requires physical contact with the respondent, to book, reschedule, and keep appointments.
In our study, potential controls were excluded if they could not be reached by telephone after six attempts.
Increasing response rates in community health surveys administered by telephone.
The tax system and telephone network have ready distribution and monitoring mechanisms that provided the institutional capacity necessary for implementation, program management, and expansion.
The follow-ups were in form of visits (50%), telephone contact (45%), letters (3%), and other contact (1%).
To characterize patients' demographic characteristics, severity of illness, and history of travel before onset of symptoms, we conducted telephone interviews using a standardized questionnaire.
In addition, there were periodic telephone conversations between laboratory staff and parents, conversations in which the vocal development of the infant was discussed in detail.
To some extent, this may reflect the relative visibility of doorstep as opposed to telephone canvassing.
These include, for example, a mixture of specialist on call clinics and telephone consultation facilities at different venues with different opening times.
Evidence shows that the first customers to purchase telephone connections were bankers, tradesmen, newspaper editors and industrialists.
The extent to which such strategic considerations might shape responses to a telephone interview is unclear.
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