Analysts estimate that manufacturers will produce 22 million residential telephones this year.

Many in the industry believe that only then will they be able to provide the kind of national service similar to the familiar residential and business telephones wired into walls.

In a rare instance of Communist Chinese glasnost, China has reported data about the world's largest potential market for residential telephones.

A 110 block is often used in residential telephone and Cat 5 wire systems.

In the 1950s, Ocean Park's first residential telephone was installed at the house of firefighter Derek Uren.

This call, indeed, originates from a residential telephone in the town of Herndon Falls, Virginia.

This ultimately caused AT&T to move away from the residential telephone business - declaring in the process that it would no longer market residential telephone service.

The numbers were then screened to limit calls to residential telephones.

And certainly, the assertive beep of an occupied line still thrives in some local niches, including most residential telephones and at many government agencies and small businesses.