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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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    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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    Kingsway telephone exchange was a Cold War-era hardened telephone exchange underneath High Holborn in London. Initially built as a deep-level air-raid...
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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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    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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    The AXE telephone exchange is a product line of circuit switched digital telephone exchanges manufactured by Ericsson, a Swedish telecom company. It was...
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    Guardian Exchange was an underground telephone exchange built in Manchester from 1954 to 1957. It was built together with the Anchor exchange in Birmingham...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    its respective numbering plan area. The telephone number consists of a three-digit central office (or exchange) code and a four-digit station number. The...
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    A telephone line or telephone circuit (or just line or circuit industrywide) is a single-user circuit on a telephone communication system. It is designed...
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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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    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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    The Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) (Corporate Number: 7010001065142) is a Japanese telecommunications holding company headquartered...
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    telephone call or telephone conversation (or telcon), also known as a phone call or voice call (or simply a call), is a connection over a telephone network...
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    Central Telephone Exchange - 14 July 1980 Changi Telephone Exchange Geylang Telephone Exchange Hougang Telephone Exchange Jurong Telephone Exchange Jurong...
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    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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  • data record produced by a telephone exchange or other telecommunications equipment that documents the details of a telephone call or other telecommunications...
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    The invention of the telephone was the culmination of work done by more than one individual, and led to an array of lawsuits relating to the patent claims...
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  • public switched telephone network (PSTN). Landline services are traditionally provided via an analogue copper wire to a telephone exchange. Landline service...
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    invents the telephone switchboard exchange (later working with Edison). 9 October 1876: Bell makes the first two-way long-distance telephone call between...
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    push-button telephone is a telephone that has buttons or keys for dialing a telephone number, in contrast to a rotary dial used in earlier telephones. Western...
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  • telephone exchange provided the solution for establishing telephone connections with any other telephone in service in the local area. Each telephone...
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    A telephone keypad is a keypad installed on a push-button telephone or similar telecommunication device for dialing a telephone number. It was standardized...
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    Lantau Island Clearwater Bay – East Telephone Exchange Tower, 38 Clearwater Bay Road Causeway Bay – East Telephone Exchange Tower, 38 Leighton Road, Causeway...
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    or territory. All local telephone numbers within the four areas have eight digits, consisting (mainly) of a four-digit exchange code and a four-digit local...
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  • An incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) is a local telephone company which held the regional monopoly on landline service before the market was opened...
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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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