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centrales públicas

English translation: public telephone exchanges

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Spanish term or phrase:centrales públicas
English translation:public telephone exchanges
Entered by: Michael Powers (PhD)

13:10 Apr 10, 2009
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Telecom(munications)
Spanish term or phrase: centrales públicas
Hi, this is information about the telephone support services of the Spanish Social Security. I think it is a telephone-related term but not 100%; telecoms is not my area.

Usuarios que no tengan centralita telefónica:

la práctica totalidad de los terminales debe disponer de la posibilidad de transmitir en multifrecuencia (en adelante MF), debido a que la mayoría de las centrales públicas permiten esta posibilidad.

My attempt:
Users that do not have a telephone system:

almost all handsets must be able to transmit multi-frequency signals (hereinafter MF), due to the fact that most...
Wil Hardman (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:35
public telephone exchanges
Explanation:
"central de teléfonos" is a "telephone exchange" so, since it is telecommunications, I assume this is what it would be.

Mike :)

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Note added at 2 days20 hrs (2009-04-13 09:44:34 GMT) Post-grading
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Pleased to be of some help, Will - Mike :)
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Michael Powers (PhD)
United States
Local time: 13:35
Grading comment
Many thanks Mike and Deborah!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +4public telephone exchanges
Michael Powers (PhD)
5public exchanges/switches/switching systems
Deborah Workman


  

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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
public exchanges/switches/switching systems


Explanation:
Any of the above terms is suitable. Your text is saying that users who do not have a private exchange need to have DTMF-capable phones (so that the organization can then use Centrex, which is a public telephone service that emulates private exchange services, such as internal abbreviated dialing). This is why the text says "essentially all" phones need to support DTMF (dual-tone multifrequency -- the noises you get when you use a touchtone phone); the phones that support only pulse dialing can't participate in the network because they can't send/receive the necessary signals to communicate with the public switch).

For more than you wish to know about centrales and centralitas, see http://books.google.com/books?id=5Xnw6pjWRBMC&pg=PA150&lpg=P...

And here is more about exchanges and switches and switching systems:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange

Deborah Workman
United States
Local time: 13:35
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 100
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks for the extra help with my text Deborah, I gave the points to Mike because he came up with the answer first, but you have really helped me out :)

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
public telephone exchanges


Explanation:
"central de teléfonos" is a "telephone exchange" so, since it is telecommunications, I assume this is what it would be.

Mike :)

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 2 days20 hrs (2009-04-13 09:44:34 GMT) Post-grading
--------------------------------------------------

Pleased to be of some help, Will - Mike :)

Michael Powers (PhD)
United States
Local time: 13:35
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 148
Grading comment
Many thanks Mike and Deborah!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  margaret caulfield
1 min
  -> Thank you, margaret - Mike :)
agree  MPGS: as opposed to PBX (private) :)
42 mins
  -> Thank you, MPGS - Mike :)
agree  Christine Walsh
2 hrs
  -> Thank you, Chris - Mike :)
agree  De Novi: Yep! Happy Easter, Mike!
11 hrs
  -> Thank you, Zanne and Happy Easter to you, too - Mike :)
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