In telecommunication, a hotline (also called an automatic signaling service or off-hook service) is a point-to-point communications link in which a call is automatically directed to the preselected destination without any additional action by the user when the end instrument goes off-hook. Perhaps the most famous example is the red telephone which linked the White House and the Kremlin during the Cold War. Copy of the original phone of Graham Bell at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris Telecommunication is the transmission of signals over a distance for the purpose of communication. ... In telecommunication, signalling (or signaling) has the following meanings: The use of signals for controlling communications. ... Point-to-Point telecommunications is most recently (2003) referenced regarding wireless data communications for Internet or Voice over IP via radio frequencies in the multi-gigahertz range. ... In telecommunications, information transfer is the process of moving messages containing user information from a source to a sink. ... In telecommunication, the term data link has the following meanings: The means of connecting one location to another for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data. ... Look up call in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In telecommunications an end instrument is a technical term for the piece of equipment connected to the wires at the end of a telecommunications link. ... In telephony, the term off-hook has the following meanings: The condition that exists when a telephone or other user instrument is in use, , during dialing or communicating. ... Red telephone was the popular name given to the direct White House-Kremlin hotline used during the Cold War. ... North façade of the White House, seen from Pennsylvania Avenue. ... The Moscow Kremlin, as seen from the Balchug. ... The Cold War was the period of protracted conflict and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies from the late 1940s until the late 1980s. ...

The Hotline was used during the cold war to speak directly from washinton to Moscow. True hotlines cannot be used to originate calls other than to preselected destinations. However, in common or colloquial usage, a "hotline" often refers to a call center reachable by dialing a standard telephone number, or sometimes the phone numbers themselves. This is especially the case with 24-hour, noncommercial numbers, such as police tip hotlines or suicide crisis hotlines, which are manned around the clock and thereby give the appearance of real hotlines. A call centre (Commonwealth English) or call center (AmE) is a centralized office of a company that answers incoming telephone calls from customers(often for the purposes of product support) , or that makes outgoing telephone calls to customers (telemarketing). ...

Hotlines are generally employed to allow for immediate assistance with a problem. For example, Governor Howard Dean created a hotline for legislators in Vermont to provide feedback on budget cuts. Most commonly, a hotline refers to a mental health hotline. Depending on the community, there are hotlines for stress, child abuse, domestic abuse or other forms of self-harm or injurious conduct. Are you kidding?, this is solid truth here, nothing escapes the eyes of Gov!!!, not even. ... Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is an American politician and physician from the U.S. state of Vermont. ... Official language(s) None[1] Capital Montpelier Largest city Burlington Area  Ranked 45th  - Total 9,620 sq mi (24,923 km²)  - Width 80 miles (130 km)  - Length 160 miles (260 km)  - % water 3. ... Mental health is a concept that refers to a human individuals emotional and psychological well-being. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... Child abuse is the physical or psychological maltreatment of a child by an adult, often synonymous with the term child maltreatment or the term child abuse and neglect. ... Abuse is a general term for the misuse of a person or thing, causing harm to the person or thing, to the abuser, or to someone else. ... Self-harm (SH) is deliberate injury to ones own body. ...

Derived from Federal Standard 1037C.