Public Switched Telephone Network - public telephone service based on circuit switching technology (usually the BT network).
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Public Switched Telephone Network is the concentration of the world's public circuit-switched telephone networks. Originally a network of fixed-line analog telephone systems, the PSTN is now almost entirely digital, and now includes mobile as well as fixe Found on http://www.youngco.com/young2.asp?ID=4&Type=3