A telephone exchange name or central office name was a distinguishing and memorable name assigned to a central office. It identified the switching system...
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A telephone exchange, also known as a telephone switch or central office, is a crucial component in the public switched telephone network (PSTN) or large...
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the originating telephone set, which transmits the sequence of digits in the process of signaling to a telephone exchange. The exchange completes the call...
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London had a large network of manual exchanges (80 in 1927) and individual telephone exchanges were given names, e.g. Ebbsfleet; a caller asked the operator...
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(KTS) to the private branch exchange (PBX). A business telephone system differs from an installation of several telephones with multiple central office...
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leading letters of telephone exchange names. In the mid-20th century United States, before the switch to All-Number Calling, telephone numbers had seven...
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convention of using telephone exchange names. Before "555" or "KLondike-5" gained broad usage, scriptwriters would sometimes invent fake exchanges starting with...
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Anchor Exchange was an underground, hardened telephone exchange built in Birmingham, England. Construction commenced in 1953 under the guise of building...
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switchboards. The switchboard is an essential component of a manual telephone exchange, and is operated by switchboard operators who use electrical cords...
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Rotary dial (redirect from Dial (of telephone))
dialing. It is used when initiating a telephone call to transmit the destination telephone number to a telephone exchange. On the rotary dial, the digits are...
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A telephone numbering plan is a type of numbering scheme used in telecommunication to assign telephone numbers to subscriber telephones or other telephony...
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North American Numbering Plan (redirect from Telephone numbers in North America)
a toll call. Despite the abandonment of telephone exchange names in telephone numbering plans, many telephone dials and keypads maintain a tradition of...
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All-figure dialling (redirect from All-Figure Telephone Numbers)
traditional system of using initial letters of telephone exchange names as the first part of a telephone number. The change affected subscriber numbers in the...
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Zenith number (category Telephone numbers)
with telephone exchange names followed by digits, such as in the telephone number "PEnnsylvania 6-5000". The letter Z appeared on many telephone dials...
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Telephone numbers in Japan consist of an area code, an exchange number, and a subscriber number. 001, 00xx, 002xx, 0091xx Carrier selection prefix 184...
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Pacific Bell (redirect from Pacific Telephone)
The Pacific Bell Telephone Company (Pac Bell) is a telephone company that provides telephone service in California. The company is owned by AT&T through...
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The Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) (Corporate Number: 7010001065142) is a Japanese telecommunications holding company headquartered...
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of the telephone chronicles the development of the electrical telephone, and includes a brief overview of its predecessors. The first telephone patent...
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Strowger switch (redirect from Strowger telephone exchange)
electromechanical stepping switch telephone exchange system. It was developed by the Strowger Automatic Telephone Exchange Company founded in 1891 by Almon...
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number may have different lengths. It shows which exchange the remaining numbers refer to. A full telephone number is usually made up of a country code (required...
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Beechwood 4-5789 (category Songs about telephone calls)
the now-defunct use of telephone exchange names in telephone numbers. In this case, the significant portions of the exchange name were the first two letters...
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PEnnsylvania 6-5000 (category Telephone numbers in the United States)
larger cities. In large cities, each central office had one or more telephone exchange names. In the 2L+5N system, used only in large cities, a seven-digit...
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Phoneword (category Telephone numbers)
location, potentially limiting the available choices based on which telephone exchanges serve a local area. The main advantages of phonewords over standard...
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national dialling codes. Exchange names were usually closely tied to the physical location of telephone exchanges, being either the name of a city, town or...
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FXO and FXS (redirect from Foreign exchange office)
modern day usage, "foreign exchange office" (FXO) and "foreign exchange station" (FXS) refer to the different ends of a telephone line in the context of voice...
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California), p. 2 [18] Anonymous (accessed May 23, 2014), "Old Telephone Exchange Names Los Angeles County," Los Angeles Almanac [19] FamilySearch (accessed...
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Hungarian engineer Tivadar Puskás proposed the telephone switch, which allowed for the formation of telephone exchanges, and eventually networks. In the United...
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telephone systems took advantage of the exchange principle already employed in telegraph networks. Each telephone was wired to a telephone exchange established...
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Area codes 416, 647, and 437 (section Exchange names)
to a growing mobile telephone market and to competitive local exchange carriers, such as cable and voice-over-IP services. Telephone numbers are portable...
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E.161 (category Telephone numbers)
primarily based on the layout used on American telephones since the 1930s for telephone exchange names. Until the 1990s, Q and Z were not included in...
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