In telecommunication, a hotline (also called an automatic signaling service, ringdown, or off-hook service) is a point-to-point communications link in which a call is automatically directed to the preselected destination without any additional action by the user when the end instrument goes off-hook. In Telecommunication, signalling (UK spelling or signaling (US spelling has the following meanings The use of signals for controlling communications Ringdown: In Telephony, a method of signaling an operator in which Telephone ringing current is sent over the line to operate a lamp or cause In Telecommunications, information transfer is the process of moving messages containing User information from a source to a sink In Telecommunication a data link is the means of connecting one location to another for the purpose of transmitting and receiving digital information In Telecommunications, a user is a person organization or other entity that employs the services provided by a Telecommunication system or by an Information In Telecommunications an end instrument is a technical term for the piece of equipment connected to the wires at the end of a telecommunications link In Telephony, the term off-hook has the following meanings The condition that exists when a Telephone or other user instrument is in

True hotlines cannot be used to originate calls other than to preselected destinations. However, in common or colloquial usage, a "hotline" often refers to a call center reachable by dialing a standard telephone number, or sometimes the phone numbers themselves. A call centre or call center (see spelling differences) is a centralized office used for the purpose of receiving and transmitting a large volume of requests by This is especially the case with 24-hour, noncommercial numbers, such as police tip hotlines or suicide crisis hotlines, which are manned around the clock and thereby give the appearance of real hotlines. A crisis hotline is a phone number people can call to get immediate over-the-phone emergency Counseling, usually by trained Volunteers Such hotlines Increasingly, however, the term is found being applied to any customer service telephone number.

Derived from Federal Standard 1037C. Federal Standard 1037C, entitled Telecommunications Glossary of Telecommunication Terms is a United States Federal Standard issued by the General Services Administration

Notable hotlines

• The White House/Kremlin hotline during the Cold War, known as the red telephone, which was established on June 20, 1963, in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba during the Cold War.
• On June 20, 2004, both India and Pakistan agreed to extend a nuclear testing ban and to set up a hotline between their foreign secretaries aimed at preventing misunderstandings that might lead to nuclear war.
• India and China announced a hotline for the foreign ministers of both countries while reiterating their commitment to strengthening ties and building "mutual political trust".
• Governor Howard Dean created a hotline for legislators in Vermont to provide feedback on budget cuts. A governor is a governing official usually the executive (at least nominally to different degrees also politically and administratively of a non-sovereign level of government Howard Brush Dean III, (born November 17 1948 is an American Vermont ( is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America.
• The Pentagon has proposed that the United States and China set up a crisis hotline between their military establishments in high-level defense talks being held in Washington. ^[1]

See also

• Crisis hotline
• Moscow-Washington hotline

References

1. ^ Pentagon proposes China-US military hotline - China Daily http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-04/29/content_438507.htm

A crisis hotline is a phone number people can call to get immediate over-the-phone emergency Counseling, usually by trained Volunteers Such hotlines

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