What is Ground Start?
Ground start is a signaling technique for telephony in which a party gets a dial tone by momentarily grounding one side of a two-wire trunk.
The Ring side of a wire pair is usually the side which is grounded.
Ground start signaling is normally used for telephone lines connected to a PBX.
Most pay phones also use ground start signaling.
The alternative to ground start is loop start.
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