What Is a Wats Line?

Wide Area Telephone Service was a flat-rate long distance service offering for customer dial-type telecommunications in some of the countries that adhere to the North American Numbering Plan.

Do WATS lines still exist?

Wide Area Telephone Service was introduced in 1961 by Bell Systems as a long-distance flat-rate plan in which businesses could obtain a dedicated line with an included number of hours of call time from specific long-distance areas, and became the basis for the toll-free 1-800 numbers still in use today.

What is the WATts line?

1. WATS line - a telephone line;long distance service at fixed rates for fixed zones; an acronym for wide area telephone service. WATS. phone line, subscriber line, telephone circuit, telephone line, line - a telephone connection.