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It would probably be easiest to give you some examples of an analog line. Usually the phone you have in your house is an analog line. Another example would be a typical fax line. Another example would be the typical line that your computer would use for a dial up connection. Perhaps the debit machine would use an analog line, but some might use a computer connection also. I just read on one web site that if your phone complies with "complies with part 68, FCC Rules" and a Ringer Equivalence Number (REN), then the phone and the line are analog.
So generally if the phone in your house will work on that line then it is analog, if it won't then likely it is digital. Digital is a line where the voice has been converted to 1's and 0's and the reconverted back to voice at the other end of the line. Digital lines are generally use in business's, although a business might have either digital or analog lines. Notice on this page http:/www.telephonemagic.com/meridian_centrex_phones.htm although all the phones are considered business phones, the digital phones are on the left and and the analog phones are on the right.
Then again your cordless phone in your house might be digital from the base to the handset, but still the line is analog.
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Y
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