Switch Access Line Service, etc.

Switched Access Line Service (Switched Access): All residential and most businesses use this type of telephone access. It refers to the connection between your phone and the long distance companies' switch (POP or Point-of-Presence) when you make a regular local or LD (long distance) telephone call over standard phone lines.

Switched Access: A method of obtaining test access to telecommunications circuits by using electromechanical circuitry to switch test apparatus to the circuit.

Switched Local Service: You pick up the phone. You dial a local number. Bingo, you have switched local phone service. The reason this trivial definition is even in Newton's dictionary is because many states in the US now, finally, allow companies to offer local switched telephone service in competition with the established company, e.g. United Telecom (Embarq). Previously, they had only allowed competition in leased lines. And then previous to that they had not allowed any competition in any area of local phone service.