• The General Toll Switching Plan was a systematic nationwide effort by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) of organizing the telephone...
    15 KB (2,060 words) - 19:42, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for PSTN network topology
    world-wide interconnected public switched telephone network (PSTN) and originated in the efforts of the General Toll Switching Plan that by 1929 formulated the...
    23 KB (3,363 words) - 10:23, 6 October 2023
  • It automated the switching and billing of long-distance calls. The concept and technology evolved from the General Toll Switching Plan of 1929, and gained...
    6 KB (806 words) - 06:25, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for North American Numbering Plan
    generation of toll-switching systems, completed by the early 1950s, and installation of new toll-switching systems in most numbering plan areas. The first...
    73 KB (8,897 words) - 23:33, 18 December 2024
  • Telecom's national network in 1996. PSTN network topology General Toll Switching Plan Operator Toll Dialing Bentley, Drake (March 12, 2021). "Wisconsin residents...
    9 KB (1,134 words) - 09:02, 28 August 2024
  • the NPAs that hosted the Regional Centers for toll-switching established in the General Toll Switching Plan of 1929: New York City (212), Los Angeles (213)...
    41 KB (4,070 words) - 21:57, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Open wire
    over the line until the first Audion amplifiers were added. General Toll Switching Plan Arthur Vaughn Abbott, Telephony–Part IV. The Construction of...
    2 KB (270 words) - 14:46, 8 February 2024
  • Seven-digit dialing (category North American Numbering Plan)
    numbering plan area, and replaced the trunk routing codes that operators previously had to look up at the toll switching centers under the General Toll Switching...
    13 KB (2,000 words) - 07:23, 4 November 2024
  • Area code split (redirect from Split plan)
    involves the establishment of a Class-4 toll switching center for each division of the existing numbering plan area that receive a new area code. The local...
    4 KB (550 words) - 00:07, 18 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for FasTrak
    FasTrak (category Electronic toll collection)
    electronic toll collection (ETC) system used in the state of California in the United States. The system is used statewide on all of the toll roads, toll bridges...
    63 KB (4,834 words) - 06:31, 15 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Congestion pricing in New York City
    In New York City, a congestion pricing toll will charge vehicles traveling into or within the central business district of Manhattan. This disincentivizing...
    236 KB (21,369 words) - 20:17, 28 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for High-occupancy toll lane
    response to demand. Unlike toll roads, drivers have an option to use general purpose lanes, on which a fee is not charged. Express toll lanes, which are less...
    16 KB (1,542 words) - 00:33, 22 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Illinois Tollway
    the Illinois State Toll Highway Commission was established in 1953. The first three toll highways in the Chicago area were all planned, constructed, and...
    46 KB (4,227 words) - 22:09, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of toll roads in the United States
    list of toll roads in the United States (and its territories). Included are current and future high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes, express toll (ETL) lanes...
    126 KB (3,972 words) - 22:35, 25 December 2024
  • did not have the necessary toll switching equipment, or because they still did not use a seven-digit local numbering plan. Montreal, Quebec, and Toronto...
    12 KB (1,585 words) - 18:25, 4 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Telephone exchange
    became to mean any switching system including its facilities and operators. It is also used generally for the building that houses switching and related inside...
    45 KB (5,978 words) - 18:31, 16 December 2024
  • and Canada that are subject to overlay plans or many countries in Europe that require closed dialing plans. Toll free (e.g. "800" numbers in the United...
    2 KB (262 words) - 00:06, 30 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Electronic toll collection
    Electronic toll collection (ETC) is a wireless system to automatically collect the usage fee or toll charged to vehicles using toll roads, HOV lanes, toll bridges...
    48 KB (5,750 words) - 21:05, 16 December 2024
  • E-ZPass Minnesota (category Electronic toll collection)
    free without requiring a toll transponder. The primary device is a switchable tag. The switchable tag allows users to switch between HOV mode (where using...
    13 KB (1,591 words) - 19:21, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for General Motors ignition switch recalls
    The General Motors ignition switch recalls refers to February 6, 2014 when General Motors recalled about 800,000 of its small cars due to faulty ignition...
    41 KB (4,438 words) - 05:40, 17 November 2024
  • E-ZPass (category Electronic toll collection)
    E-ZPass is an electronic toll collection system used on toll roads, toll bridges, and toll tunnels in the Eastern, Midwestern, and Southeastern United...
    90 KB (9,581 words) - 01:13, 27 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Area codes 408 and 669
    overloaded switching equipment causing slow dial tone and blocked long-distance circuits. A patchwork quilt of electromechanical switching equipment handled...
    15 KB (1,934 words) - 01:40, 10 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge
    Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge (category Toll bridges in New York City)
    but it was controversial due to the dubious benefits involved. The new toll plan not only caused a drop in revenues, but also caused congestion in Manhattan...
    217 KB (19,241 words) - 20:22, 28 December 2024
  • the numbering plan with a routing code. This concept was first developed in the planning for a nationwide numbering plan for Operator Toll Dialing and direct...
    30 KB (4,244 words) - 22:38, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Telephone exchange names
    identified the switching system to which a telephone was connected, and facilitated the connection of telephone calls between switching systems in different...
    31 KB (3,725 words) - 21:13, 15 December 2024
  • forwarding, or call diversion, is a telephony feature of all telephone switching systems which redirects a telephone call to another destination, which...
    14 KB (1,478 words) - 09:56, 12 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Israel–Hamas war
    (6 June 2024). "Diminished Hamas switches to full insurgent mode in Gaza". Reuters. Retrieved 6 June 2024. "Hamas Toll Thus Far Falls Short of Israel's...
    563 KB (56,372 words) - 07:31, 31 December 2024
  • customer, pay the toll. New, advanced telephone switching equipment makes sure only calls from these preselected areas are accepted toll-free. This service...
    13 KB (1,786 words) - 17:18, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Congestion pricing
    Dan; Mocker, Greg (November 13, 2024). "New NYC congestion pricing plan to reduce toll: sources". PIX11. Retrieved November 14, 2024; Bergin, Brigid; Kim...
    131 KB (13,739 words) - 00:46, 24 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ohio Turnpike
    Ohio Turnpike (category Toll roads in Ohio)
    officially the James W. Shocknessy Ohio Turnpike, is a controlled-access toll road in the U.S. state of Ohio, serving as a primary corridor between Chicago...
    51 KB (4,029 words) - 06:23, 25 December 2024