When you think of Telephone you automatically think cellular phones. Well here is a brief history of landline phones for my pals who want to wrap their heads around this media of telecommunications. Very brief, the telegraph sent electric pulses from one place to another. And those lines were later converted to 2 pair lines. It takes one pair for conventional telephone to work. It started with operators pluging in a mono head Phone like jumper into a plug when you wanted to talk to some one. That plug had a tip and a ring. Therefore you had tip and ring connections. So that orientation used to mater it was simple. that was until you had something that they added that according to my Trainor was called a polarity guard it basically made it to where tip and ring did not matter. Now professionally it matters since you want to look like you know what your doing haha. Ok now there are different ways to drop Telephone in to your home and business. We call those drop cables and just plain...