telepoint

plural telepoints

1. A base station to which users of early mobile phones could connect in order to place (but not receive) calls.

   BT has also been prevented from holding a majority share of a telepoint operator.

   1991, Institution of Electrical Engineers, Sixth International Conference on Mobile Radio and Personal Communications

   2 more examples

   When it started in September, Phonepoint had 174 telepoints or public base stations […] Ferranti has a more intensive network, with 300 telepoints concentrated around London […]

   1989 November 4, New Scientist, volume 124, number 1689, page 38

   These telepoints can be thought of as cordless phone base units that work with all cordless receivers in operation. Some telepoints register the presence of a customer when the person comes within range — say at a train station.

   1995, Scott D. Elliott, Daniel J. Dailey, Wireless communications for intelligent transportation systems