Stories of the history of telephone service in the area go back to “magneto offices,” a name referring to the crank-operated magneto switchboard that operators used to make a telephone ring. In the ...

Eventually to become affectionately known as “Old Betsy,” a Western Electric TBX-556A telephone switchboard went into service in 1958 in West Milford Town Hall to facilitate communication in the ...

PANAMA CITY — One ringy-dingy. No, the famous character Ernestine is not on display at the History Museum of Bay County, but a telephone switchboard similar to the one she used on the TV series "Laugh ...

A telephone switchboard and its operator in 1935. (Source: Library of Congress) During his 77 years, Dennis Hall has seen a lot of changes in rural communications. More than that, he’s lived those ...

Before cellphones, before dial-up, if you wanted to make a phone call, you talked to an operator. That operator sat in front of a wall covered in... Jun 19, 2017 — Before cellphones, before dial-up, ...

Before smartphones, most people kept in touch using landline telephones. And before direct dialing was common, some calls were handled by switchboard operators. During the 1950s, more than 220,000 ...

Google Voice is now open for business for everyone in the U.S. Now we'll get to see how Google really does as a telecom switchboard. The search giant's Voice service is very handy. It's a central ...

Alcatel Lucent will supply the large switchboard for handling more than 300 extensions, and Taldor will install them. Sources inform ''Globes'' that the IDF has chosen Alcatel Lucent SA (NYSE; ...

Samsung and SK Telecom have developed a prototype 5G switchboard based on the standalone standard (SA), the companies have announced. 5G will be deployed in 5G non-standalone (NSA) that will use 4G ...

Network Neutrality debates are fundamentally about switching – whether network switches can treat some packets differently from others. In this piece, I look back 100 years to the telephone ...