File Bell Edison Telephone Building.jpg thumb 340px The Edison Bell Telephone Company building of 1896 in Birmingham , England A telephone company also known as a telco , telecommunications operator , communications service provider , or CSP is a service provider of telecommunications services such as telephony and data communication s access. Many were at one time nationalized or state regulated monopoly monopolies . These monopolies are often referred to, primarily in Europe, as Postal Telegraph and Telephone s PTTs . Telephone companies are common carrier s, and in the United States are also called local exchange carrier s. With the advent of mobile telephony , telephone companies now include wireless carrier s, or mobile network operator s. Most telephone companies now also function as internet service provider s ISPs , and the distinction between a telephone company and an ISP may disappear completely over time, as the current trend for supplier convergence in the industry continues. Popular culture Comedian Lily Tomlin frequently satirized the telephone industry and the country s then dominant Bell System in particular with a sketch comedy skit playing the telephone operator Ernestine ... landline s with mobile phone s. See also colbegin 2 Bell Telephone Company , forerunner of AT&T in the U.S. Internet telephony service provider Competitive local exchange carrier in the U.S. Communications service provider History of the telephone Incumbent local exchange carrier of the Bell System List of telephone operating companies List of mobile network operators Mobile network operator Public switched telephone network Telecommunications Industry Association for the development of U.S. telecom standards Regional Bell Operating Company in the U.S. Service provider Telecommunications service provider The Phone Company , free, non commercial email to fax service colend References ... Telephone Company Category Telecommunications companies Category Public utilities ar da ... more details
service customer began a blog entitled http www.CavtelSucks.com CavtelSucks.com to document his attempts to part ways with the company. Services Telephone Cavalier offers a number of different business telephoneservice plans for both local and long distance calling. Rates vary based upon the number of optional features added to supplement basic telephoneservice. Residential services are provided ...Infobox company company name Cavalier Telephone, LLC company logo File Cavalier telephone logo.png 200px company type Private company Private founded 1998 foundation 1998 founder location city Richmond, Virginia location country United States US area served United States key people industry Internet Service Provider , Telecommunications products Internet, Telephone, Digital Television market cap revenue ... URL http www.cavtel.com Founded in 1998, Cavalier is a Local Exchange Carrier NRCLEC operating in 16 ... service through DSL digital subscriber lines . Television Cavalier partnered with DirecTV in March 2009 and is offering discounted rates on satellite television service. Acquisition Acquired by Paetec ... its acquisition of Cavalier Telephone for 460 million in cash. The merger was finalized in December, 2010, adding nearly 17,000 fiber route miles to Paetec s existing service footprint. PATEC was in turn, acquired by Windstream Communications in December of 2011. End of new residential service ... of this change. They will continue to service existing residential customers. ref cite web url ... Cavalier Telephone owner to cut jobs, end new residential services publisher M.timesdispatch.com ... Reflist External links http www.cavtel.com Cavalier Telephone official site http company.monster.com cava Cavalier Telephone company profile on Monster.com http www.linkedin.com companies cavalier telephone Cavalier Telephone company profile on Linkedin.com http www.paetec.com Paetec Holding Corp. official site United States telephone companies DEFAULTSORT Cavalier Telephone And Tv Category ... more details
employees products TelephoneLocalTelephoneService parent RBJ Corp. RBJ 1992 2007 br American Broadband 2007 present revenue homepage http www.klmtel.net K.L.M. Telephone Company is a rural telecommunications provider based in Rich Hill, Missouri . Consisting mainly of small, rural, family run telephone companies it absorbed, it provides localtelephoneservice to 1400 southwest Missouri telephone ..., MO , near Richards, MO , was still a mutual exchange in 1971 with magneto service. Some customers within the area petitioned the Missouri Public Service Commission for Bell System Bell telephoneservice because they wanted dial telephoneservice. Mr. Kern made arrangements to rent some Stromberg ... within six months. Missouri Union Telephone Company, Deerfield s service provider, was merged into the KLM Telephone Company in 1973. By 1975, KLM Telephone Company consisted of the merged operations of the following acquired telephone companies family run operations Rich Hill Telephone Company 1955 Papinville, MO telephone operations 1956 Metz, MO and Richards, MO telephone exchanges 1959 managed as a separate partnership, Missouri Union Telephone Company Missouri Union Telephone Company, fully ...Infobox Company company name K.L.M. Telephone Company company logo company type Private company Private ...?company K 20L 20M 20TELEPHONE 20COMPANY&state MO Telcodata.us, K L M Telephone Company, Accessed April 27, 2012 ref . It is owned by American Broadband . History Formation & Expansion KLM Telephone Company began in 1955 as a business investment by Ken Kern . He purchased the Rich Hill Telephone ... James Lamble later joined. Rich Hill Telephone Company was then renamed KLM Telephone Company , representing Kern Lamble Mauser. The partners formed a holding company for the telephone company ... 23, 1992 ref http web.archive.org web 20090430075747 http www.klmtel.net history.htm History, KLM Telephone ... acquires Copsey Family Telephone Operations, November 29, 2007 ref . KLM Telephone then became ... more details
they will roll out localservice in 15 states in 2009. Peter Bouchard, the company founder continues ...distinguish Pioneer Telephone Cooperative Oregon Telephone Pioneers of America Infobox Company company name Pioneer Telephone company logo Image Pioneertelephonelogo.png vector logo company type Private company Private genre foundation founder location city location country location Portland, Maine origins key people area served industry Telecomunications products revenue operating income net income num employees parent divisions subsid owner company slogan homepage http www.pioneertelephone.com www.pioneertelephone.com dissolved footnotes Pioneer Telephone is a privately held company with headquarters .... It is a facility based telecommunication carrier of Long distance calling long distance telephoneservice in the United States . As of October 2011, Pioneer Telephone had more than 2,000,000 customers in 48 states. In 2005, Pioneer Telephone purchased the long distance telephone business of bankrupt ... 533242.stm Adelphia Communications to sell long distance phone service , Pittsburgh Post Gazette , July ... service for 1.2M , Denver Business Journal , July 6, 2005, and http psc.ky.gov telecomm informational ..., Inc. and Telecom Management, Inc. d b a Pioneer Telephone of an Asset Purchase Agreement , December ... Adelphia Communications to sell long distance phone service , Pittsburgh Post Gazette , July ... service for 1.2M , Denver Business Journal , July 6, 2005. http psc.ky.gov telecomm informational ..., Inc. and Telecom Management, Inc. d b a Pioneer Telephone of an Asset Purchase Agreement , December 1, 2005. ref Adelphia s phone service had 110,000 customers in 27 states telephone & long distance services . In November, 2008 Pioneer Telephone purchased all the residential and small to medium size ... Reflist External links http www.pioneertelephone.com Pioneer Telephone official website http www.pioneertelephone.net Pioneer Telephone online sign up website Category Telecommunications companies ... more details
Refimprove date June 2009 Infobox Top level domain name local background ADFF2F introduced type Pseudo domain style host suffix status Not in root but used by the mDNS protocol. registry Machines on the local net can automatically register an address. sponsor intendeduse network discovery and configuration actualuse Local Area Network name resolution restrictions structure document http developer.apple.com macosx bonjour Developer page disputepolicy website http www.apple.com macosx features bonjour Mac OS X features local is a pseudo top level domain used in multicast DNS multicast domain name service mDNS of zero configuration networking discovery protocols. Apple Inc. Apple s Bonjour software Bonjour implements mDNS, as does Avahi software Avahi . If a computer running Mac OS X is not assigned a domain name, it identifies itself as tt hostname .local tt . Name resolution issues may arise if multicast DNS software is used in conjunction with a network that implements the tt local tt toplevel DNS domain. Despite not being a valid top level domain in the Internet, considerable DNS traffic that queries the tt local tt domain exists in the public Domain Name System. ref cite web url http www.circleid.com posts 20090618 most popular invalid tlds should be reserved title Most Popular Invalid TLDs Should Be Reserved publisher Circle ID author George Kirikos accessdate 26 June 2009 Added by DASHBot archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20090621054344 http www.circleid.com posts 20090618 most popular invalid tlds should be reserved archivedate 21 June 2009 Added by DASHBot ref In June 2009, the L root server received more than 400 such queries per second, ref cite web url http stats.l.root ... COM tt , tt .arpa ARPA tt , and tt .net NET tt . References reflist GTLD DEFAULTSORT LOCAL Category Domain name system Category Pseudo top level domains Compu domain stub ca .local da .local es .local it .local hu .local no .local ru .local sv Toppdom n Generiska toppdom ner ... more details
Wiktionarypar localLocal usually refers to something nearby, or in the immediate area. It may be used in many ways, some of which are related to this general meaning, others which are not Local, local anesthesia Local, a.k.a. union local or local union Local, stamp issued by a local post mail system It would seem logical for some collectors to collect locals in this sense, but if so, our Local post article makes no mention, so as far as articles are concerned local is just what the dictionary says about the general purpose adjective Local, a.k.a. public house Local comic Local comic In computing Local variable in programming languages .local , network address component In a community Local community Local government Local history Local purchasing See also Local structures, according to terms of locality in astronomy Local food Local property , in mathematics Local ring , in mathematics Local theories, re physics principle of locality Local H , band Inflections of word local Localism disambiguation Locality disambiguation Localization disambiguation Locus disambiguation Locale lookfrom local intitle local disambig de Lokal es Local fr Local sk Lok l ... more details
num employees products TelephoneLocalTelephoneService revenue parent Bell Telephone Company American Bell 1883 1899 br American Telephone & Telegraph AT&T 1899 1983 bR Bell Atlantic Verizon 1984 ... DC The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company , usually known as C&P Telephone , was a d b a name for four Bell Operating Company Bell Operating Companies providing service to Washington, D.C. ... The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company DC The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Maryland The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia One company is owned by Frontier Communications Frontier West Virginia The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of West Virginia History The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company DC The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company was founded in June 1883. C&P Telephone Co. provided telephoneservice to Washington, D.C. In July 1969, Richard Nixon President Richard Nixon s telephone call to astronauts on the moon originated from C&P Telephone Co. equipment. The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Maryland Image C&PMD.jpg thumb right C&P Tel. Co. of Maryland logo, 1964 1969 The C&P Telephone Company of Maryland was founded in 1884 as The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Baltimore City . ref http www22.verizon.com ... and Potomac Telephone Company of Maryland on January 3, 1956, and the corporate name at this point changed to C&P Telephone of Maryland. ref http sdatcert3.resiusa.org UCC Charter DisplayEntity ... jobs in January 1943 due to labor shortages during World War II, but telephone operator positions remained ... and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia Image C&PVA.jpg thumb right C&P Tel. Co. of Virginia logo, 1964 1969 The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company of Virginia was founded in 1903. In 2010 ... shortened to C&P Telephone on marketing materials, bills, vehicles, etc. Image C&P Telephone.png thumb C&P Telephone logo, 1984 1994 In 1984, when the Bell System was divided into the Regional Bell ... more details
teledensity was Sweden. Telephoneservice in Sweden developed through a variety of institutional ... Department part of the Swedish government . Since Stockholm consists of islands, telephoneservice ... spread of telephoneservice http purplemotes.net 2010 03 21 leaders in the early spread of telephoneservice ref What turned out to be the most popular and longest lasting physical style of telephone ... battery which required periodic service. For the next half century, the network behind the telephone ... switched to this type of telephoneservice as of January 2005. IP telephony uses a broadband ... Plain Old TelephoneService Plain old telephoneservice POTS system, IP telephony is also competing ... speak into and then listen through the same hole. File Telephone Centennial Issue 1976 13c.jpg thumb right 240px center Bell s Prototype Telephone center center Centennial Issue of 1976 center This history of the telephone timeline of the telephone chronicles the development of the telephone electrical telephone , and includes a brief review of its earlier predecessors. Telephone prehistory ... s telephone A different device, the tin can telephone , or lover s phone , has also been known for centuries ... The telephone emerged from the creation of, and successive improvements to the electrical telegraph ... to the invention of the telephone, or the speaking telegraph . Invention of the telephone main Invention of the telephone Credit for the invention of the electric telephone is frequently disputed ... credited with the telephone s invention. The early history of the telephone became and still remains ... and Edison patents, however, were commercially decisive, because they dominated telephone technology ... Meucci , 1854, constructed telephone like devices. Image JPReis.jpg Johann Philipp Reis , 1860, constructed ... Bell.jpg Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876. Image Portrait elisha gray.jpg Elisha Gray , 1876, designed a telephone using a water microphone ... more details
Infobox company company name North Eastern Pennsylvania Telephone Company company logo company type Privately held Private foundation 1900 location Forest City, Pennsylvania Forest City , Pennsylvania , USA industry Telecommunications products Plain old telephoneservice Landline TelephoneService , DSL , IPTV , Wireless Services homepage http www.nep.net NEP North Eastern Pennsylvania Telephone Company NEP is a telecommunication s provider headquartered in Forest City, Pennsylvania. The company operates as a local exchange carrier in rural areas of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania Lackawanna County , Wayne County, Pennsylvania Wayne County and Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania Susquehanna County . Besides landline telephone, NEP offers Broadband Internet, NEP Datavision IPTV and Wireless Phone Services. ADSL2 Upgrade In April, 2011 NEP finished upgrading it s data infrastructure to support the ITU G.992.5 ADSL2 standard. The upgrade includes access to faster Internet download speeds and a new IPTV platform ref http www.nep.net index.php bundling news ref . Wireless Services NEP Telephone has GSM wireless services in place for Dimock Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania Dimock , Montrose, Pennsylvania Montrose , Susquehanna, Pennsylvania Susquehanna , Forest City, Pennsylvania Forest City , and other towns in the area. They offer Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution EDGE and GPRS wireless data services. They allow customers from other GSM carriers to roam onto their network when service from their home carrier is not available. NEP offers nationwide coverage via roaming agreements with AT&T and T Mobile USA . References Reflist External links http www.nep.net NEP United States telephone companies CATV USA Category Telecommunications companies of the United States Category Companies based in Pennsylvania Category Companies established in 1900 US telecom company stub ... more details
, such as local call s and Internal calls dialed directly by a telephone subscriber in Canada , the United ... thumb right An early 20th century Candlestick telephone used for a phone call. Image Phone calls ... telephone anxiety on an mid seventies rotary dial model. A telephone call is a connection over a telephone network between the calling party and the called party . Information transmission A telephone call may carry ordinary Human voice voice transmission using a telephone, data transmission when .... Where a telephone call has more than one called party it is referred to as a conference call . When ... party, when the caller takes their telephone off hook , the calling party s phone will ring ... cannot dial calls directly, and is connected to an telephone operator operator who places the call for them. Calls may be placed through a public network such as the Public Switched Telephone Network provided by a commercial telephone company or a private network called a Private branch exchange PBX .... Most telephone calls through the PSTN are set up using ISDN User Part ISUP signalling messages or one of its variants between telephone exchange s to establish the end to end connection. Calls through ... other areas, all telephone calls are charged a fee for the connection. Fees depend on the provider of the service, the type of service being used a call placed from a landline or wired telephone will have one rate, and a call placed from a mobile telephone will have a different rate and the distance ... pays the cost of the call. In some circumstances, the caller pays a flat rate charge for the telephone ... has been established in several countries to allows customers to keep their local phone provider ... numbers needed to complete the call. In addition to the traditional method of placing a telephone call, new technologies allow different methods for initiating a telephone call, such as voice dialing . Voice over IP technology allows calls to be made through a Personal computer PC , using a service ... more details
nyheter article18294.ece The Local spr nger miljonvallen . Dagens Media . February 2, 2009. ref The Local s founders are Managing Director Paul Rapacioli, formerly a director of reed.co.uk ... laesa om sverige the local Vad vill utl nningar l sar om Sverige, The Local? . Mediev rlden . February ... Fear and Loathing in Bavaria . Deutsche Welle . August 13, 2005. ref The Local s Swedish edition ... Digitala Medier . Mediev rlden . September 14, 2009. ref In January 2010 The Local acquired thelocal.com .... References Reflist External links http www.thelocal.com The Local Europe s news in English http www.thelocal.de The Local Germany s news in English http www.thelocal.no The Local Norway s news in English http www.thelocal.se The Local Sweden s news in English http www.thelocal.ch The Local Switzerland ... Feedback 5 de The Local fr The Local sv The Local tr The Local ... more details
Other uses Slamming disambiguation Telephone slamming is an illegal telecommunications practice, in which a subscriber s telephoneservice is changed without their consent. Slamming became a more visible ... for the term came from the ease at which a competitor could switch a customer s service away from AT&T by falsely notifying a telephone company that an AT&T customer had elected to switch to their service ... In the United States, local carriers have been responsible for distributing telephone numbers to individuals and businesses since AT&T split up into local and long distance carriers as a result of deregulation. Orders to change long distance carriers would be submitted to them, and the local carrier would make the change. In the most common scenario regarding slamming, an employee of a telephone ... is an authorization to switch their telephoneservice to another carrier. Another common ... s consent however, as the US market has expanded, and choice of local long distance service and localservice providers has increased over the last 10 years, there have been some instances ... a request from the service provider in writing. Industry regulators advise consumers to read their telephone ... the service on their own terms, rather than agreeing to purchase the offered services over the telephone ... s long distance service. The term slamming became an industry standard term for this practice ... to change carriers to the local exchange carrier without the approval of the customer. In the United ... telephone services increased. Similar fraudulent sales practices have been alleged by British customers who claim that their landline service has been switched to a new service provider. ref name ... s current carrier, offering better rates or a free upgrade to existing service. Slammers using ... perpetrating the illusion of an upgrade to existing service rather than an unauthorized service ..., complaints have been received by OFCOM relating to mobile telephone contracts being renewed without ... more details
Telephone counseling refers to any type of psychological service performed over the telephone . Telephone counseling ranges from individual, couple or group psychotherapy with a professional therapist ... per week. Phone counselors may not be acquainted with local emergency service options. ref name ... with local resources. Examples of nonprofit telephone counseling services The Volunteer Emotional ... Zealand has a community based, youth oriented Telephone counseling service, Youthline . Based in 11 local centers around the country, Youthline enlists 1100 volunteers nationwide 100 of whom are working ... 5 and 18 years. Australia has a national Telephone counseling service, Lifeline Counselling service Lifeline . Also, the larger cities in Australia have other specialised Telephone counseling services ... therapists often advise clients to make use of telephone crisis counseling to provide the client with an avenue ... of a therapeutic relationship. Professional counseling by telephone Researchers have begun ... some of their clients via the telephone. ref name Barnett Barnett, J. Scheetz, K. 2003 . Technological ... of telephone counseling to in person counseling and to no treatment. A recent study found that more .... ref Reese, R., Conoley, C., Brossart, D. 2006 The Attractiveness of Telephone Counseling An Empirical ... clients. ref Reese, R Conoley, C. Brossart, D. 2002 . Effectiveness of Telephone Counseling ... MB, Nagel R. 1997 . Telephone counseling for patients with minor depression preliminary findings ... G, Ludman E. 2000 . Telephone counseling as an adjunct to antidepressant treatment in the primary care ... hotlines also provide telephone support services. These may be state funded or provided by churches ... of counseling, telephone counseling is potentially free of certain constraining factors that affect ... counselor may help you feel more connected with him or her the telephone may contribute to distance ... Samaritans UK http www.ifotes.org welcome.html IFOTES International Federation of Telephone Emergency ... more details
such as 550 1212 , which is the local number. Most telephone networks today are interconnected in the international telephone network, where the format of telephone numbers is standardized by ITU ... service would be more profitable, with the invention of the telephone switchboard ... about a paralysis of telephoneservice. He recommended the use of numbers for calling Lowell s more ... a call off your own local one , followed by turning the telephone s crank once, a short pause ... telephone numbers Long distance calling Area code MSISDN Number translation service Phonewords ...Globalize date September 2010 for the integer sequence Telephone number mathematics A telephone number or phone number is a sequence of digits used to call from one telephone line to another in a public switched telephone network . When telephone numbers were invented, they were short as few as one, two ... to encompass the world, telephone numbers have become longer. In addition to telephone ... necessary to identify uniquely the intended endpoint for the telephone call . Each such endpoint must have a unique number within the public switched telephone network . Most countries use ... length of the telephone number. It is also possible for each subscriber to have a set of shorter ... translated to unique telephone numbers before the call can be connected. Some special services ... 2 being the Emergency telephone number Emergency Services numbers for China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan ... Union, respectively. Many systems also allow calls within a local area to be made without dialing the local area code. For example, a phone number in North America will start with three numbers ... telephone exchange . ITU T recommendation E.123 describes how to represent an international telephone ... allow the to be entered directly. The format and allocation of local phone numbers are controlled ... overseen by NeuStar Inc. . Before a telephone call is connected, the telephone number must be dial ... more details
evolved into an important European telephone company telephoneservice provider and manufacturer, with major ... ref 7 January 1927 Transatlantic telephoneservice inaugurated. 7 April 1927 world s first videophone ... as the inventor of the telephone. 2005 Mink, Louisiana gets phone service one of the last in the USA ...Below is a timeline of the telephone that covers many important dates in the history of the telephone ... Newton Vail 1844 Innocenzo Manzetti The first mooted the idea of a speaking telegraph telephone . 1849 ... telephone, but is said to involve direct transmission of electricity into the user s body. 1854 Charles Bourseul publishes a description of a make break telephone transmitter ... feet, see Reis telephone . Reis used his Telephone the word also invented by Reis to transmit his ..., pages 16 18 ref for a Sound Telegraph, but it does not describe an electromagnetic telephone. 1872 ... Reis s telephone in New York. July 1873 Thomas Edison notes variable resistance in carbon grains due ... instruments. 1 July 1875 Bell uses a bi directional gallows telephone that was able to transmit ... 1876 Elisha Gray invents Water microphone liquid transmitter for use with a telephone, but does not build ... Gray s patent caveat caveat for the telephone. A caveat was like a patent application without ... 11 30am Bell s lawyer brings to the same patent office Bell s patent application for the telephone ... A. 1975. Elisha Gray and the Telephone On the Disadvantages of Being an Expert. Technology and Culture 16 2 133 161. ref 7 March 1876 Bell s US patent No. 174,465 for the telephone is granted. 10 March .... 10 August 1876 Alexander Graham Bell makes the world s first long distance telephone call, about 6 miles between Brantford and Paris, Ontario, Canada. 1876 Hungarian Tivadar Puskas invented the telephone exchange telephone switchboard exchange later working with Edison . 9 October 1876 Bell makes the first two way long distance telephone call between Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, USA. October ... more details
for the 1937 film Telephone Operator film Image JT Switchboard 770x540.jpg thumb A telephone operator at work on her private switchboard in 1975 A telephone operator is either a person who provides assistance to a telephone caller, usually in the placing of operator assisted telephone calls such as calls from a pay phone , collect call s called reversed charge calls in the United Kingdom UK , calls which are billed to a credit card , station to station and person to person call s, and certain List of country calling codes international call s which cannot be direct dial dialed directly . Further2 Switchboard operator a telephone company offering telephoneservice s to subscribers. For example, users of a mobile phone will register with a mobile phone operator to receive GSM services . Telecommunications Category Business and financial operations occupations Category Telephony bg de Telefonist es Telefonista eo Telefonisto id Operator telepon nl Telefoniste sv Telefonist zh ... more details
the day s news 1901 A telephone newspaper was a telephone based news and entertainment service .... History In 1887 Tivadar Pusk s the inventor of the telephone exchange introduced the multiplex switchboard, which was a revolutionary step in the development of telephone exchanges. His next invention was the Telephone News Service that he introduced in Pest, Hungary Pest , which announced news and broadcast ... The first organized telephone based entertainment service appears to have been the Th trophone ... of MM. Marinovitch and Szarvady. Although the service received most of its programming from telephone lines run to local theaters, it reportedly included regular five minute news summaries, and also ... scientific journal, at most 50 people could listen to Edison s telephone at the same time, if one more ... Backward 2000 1887 foresaw the establishment of entertainment transmitted by telephone lines to individual ... organized services, which were generally called Telephone Newspapers, although all of these systems ... limited means for amplifying and transmitting telephone signals over long distances, so listeners had to wear headphones to receive the programs, and service areas were generally limited ... transmission lines, others, including the Electrophone , used standard commercial telephone lines, which allowed subscribers to talk to operators in order to select programming. The Telephone Newspapers drew upon a mixture of outside sources for their programs, including local live theaters and church services, whose programs were picked up by special telephone lines, and then retransmitted to the subscribers ... of the better known systems used for distributing news and entertainment by telephone. Th trophone ... telephone receivers, in locations such as hotels, charging 50 centimes for five minutes of listening, and one franc for twice as long. Home listeners could also connect to the service, with a 1893 report stating that the system had grown to over 1,300 subscribers. The service continued till 1932, and was superseded ... more details
r group Note older Image Telephone plugs Norway.jpg 6 prong national standard ref group Note For local ...Image Photo RJ11 MF.jpg thumb A modular connector plug 6P6C and socket 6P4C . A telephone plug is a type of plug male connector used to connect a telephone to the telephone wiring in a home or business, and in turn to a local loop localtelephone network. It is inserted into its female counterpart, a telephone Jack connector jack , commonly affixed to a wall or baseboard. The standard for telephone ... quote 4 position and 4 contact connectors are used primarily for telephone handset cords. ref often ... Bell system line cord as used in the mid 1960s Historically the telephone was often owned by the supplier and permanently wired in to the telephone line they supplied but as phone markets became more ... plug about 40mm in diameter with four prongs about 15mm apart. National connectors remain in service but few are used for new installations. List of connections On a conventional wired telephone , there are 4 connections, each of which may be hardwired, but more often uses a plug and socket telephone ... as the boundary between an individual s telephone and the phone network. In many homes, though, the boundary ... ways. For example, telephone cables in the United Kingdom UK typically have a BS 6312 UK standard plug at the wall end and a 6P4C or 6P2C modular connector at the telephone end this latter may ... line need be added, the other two are present. Compatibility Different telephone connections ... incompatibility. See commons Telefonadapter gallery of telephone adapters . List of plugs Expand ... single telephone line 6P4C for RJ14 two telephone lines 6P6C for RJ25 three telephone lines 8P8C for RJ61 X four telephone lines, RJ48 S and RJ48C for four wire data lines, RJ31 X single telephone ... such as the ITT 2564 , key telephone system s such as the 1A2 Key System , and Private branch exchange ... gallery Image WT 4 & RJ11 telephone socket.png WT 4 and RJ11 telephone socket double system Image ... more details
A telephone network is a telecommunications network used for telephone call s between two or more parties. There are a number of different types of telephone network A fixed line network where the telephones must be directly wired into a single telephone exchange . This is known as the public switched telephone network or PSTN. A wireless network where the telephones are mobile phone mobile and can move around anywhere within the cellular network coverage area . A private network where a closed group of telephones are connected primarily to each other and use a gateway to reach the outside world. This is usually used inside Company companies and call centre s and is called a private branch exchange PBX . Public telephone operator s PTOs own and build networks of the first two types and provide services to the public under license from the national government. Mobile Virtual Network Operator Virtual Network Operators VNOs lease capacity wholesale from the PTOs and sell on telephony service to the public directly. Category Telecommunications infrastructure bg cs Telefonn s ... more details
on individual telephone number s by local number portability due to customers porting a cancelled landline to a wireless . It is sometimes confused with the Telephone numbering plan Area code area code Telephone numbering plan Area code NPA , which covers multiple exchanges, and which an exchange can have more than one of due to overlays of new area codes. In the United States , local exchange areas together make up a legal entity called local access and transport area s local access and transport ..., each of which was the local termination of a subscriber s telephone line . In front of the jack panel ... across the line. In manual service, this current flowing through the off hook telephone flows through ... telephone exchange building in Australia. Automatic exchanges , or dial service , came into existence ..., generally as part of the public switched telephone network . The local exchange automatically ... delayed only minutely. See below for more info. Individual local loop telephone lines ... center Class 5 telephone switches in which trunks and local loop s are terminated and switched ...refimprove date March 2010 Image JT Switchboard 770x540.jpg thumb 250px A telephone operator manually connecting calls with cord pairs at a telephone switchboard. In the field of telecommunications , a telephone exchange or telephone switch is a system of electronic components that connects telephone ... telephone switches, which make telephone call s work in the sense of making connections and relaying .... Local calling areas, in which it is not necessary to pay a long distance rate, typically cover ... office code often called the prefix by the public refers to the first three digits of the local ... thumb 250px Tivadar Pusk s , inventor of the telephone exchange. File HungarianTelekomMiskolc01.jpg thumb 250px Exchange in Miskolc, Hungary Prior to the telephone, electrical switches were used to switch telegraph lines. One of the first people to build a telephone exchange was Hungary Hungarian ... more details
through higher call charges total cost of a call to the user is often lower using a local number. When travelling through several local areas a toll free service may be preferable. Once connected ... service whose access details and PIN are also stored in the telephone s memory. This may be implemented ...refimprove date August 2011 Image Phone Card Aquarius.jpg thumb 2000s telephone card from the USA . A telephone ... a credit card , used to pay for telephone services. It is not necessary to have the physical card except with a stored value system knowledge of the access telephone number to dial and the PIN is sufficient ... is used to place a telephone call vary from card to card. Cards known as remote memory cards have a Personal identification number PIN associated with a specific land line telephone account calls .... Making a Prepaid telephone calls prepaid or calling card call requires the user to make two calls. Regardless of the type of card it is necessary to dial an access telephone number to connect to the calling ... offering this internationally. Access through a local number has become increasingly popular in recent ... or calling cards are usually much cheaper than other telephone services, particularly for travelers ... from the home area. Remote memory systems Telephone accounts symbolized by a card The second main ... and check for balance on product. As the United States never had a single nationalized telephoneservice or even the same firm for every part of a state , and with the deregulation of its .... To call a long distance number, the user first dials the local access number, then keys in the secret ... service providers have introduced calling accounts not associated with a physical card. Calling accounts ... via e mail. This e mail contains the PIN and instructions for using the service. The service may ... a number unique to the customer, or by recognising the telephone number which originated the call ... as this is a specific service which shouldn t be advertised here. The virtual phone card has ... more details
See also Language interpretation Video Relay Service Navbox translation Telephone interpreting is a service that connects human interpret ers via telephone to individuals who wish to speak to each other but do not share a common language. The telephone interpreter converts the spoken language from one ... service, ref http www.healthtranslations.vic.gov.au bhcv2 bhcht.nsf PresentDetail?Open&s Telephone Interpreting Service Australian Telephone Interpreting Service ref as do the governments of South Africa ...?OpenDocument New Zealand Interpretation Service ref United States In the United States, telephone ... service s, where the client s knowledge of language codes is absent. Uses Telephone interpreting ... Video Relay Service Market Primary sources section date August 2011 In 2007, the global telephone ... the telephone most often takes place in Interpret Consecutive interpreting consecutive mode , which ... into the other language. Telephone interpreting is one Modality Linguistics modality or delivery ... include in person interpreting and Video Relay Service video interpreting for the deaf and hard of hearing . Historical timeline 1973 Australia introduces telephone interpretation as a fee free service to respond to its growing immigrant communities. ref cite web last Mikkelson first Holly title Telephone ... de Valencia accessdate 8 August 2011 ref 1981 The first Over the Phone Interpretation OPI service is offered in the United States. ref cite book last Kelly first Nataly title Telephone Interpreting A Comprehensive ... 302 ref li 1981 1990 Telephone interpretation enters major U.S. industries including financial services ... Nataly title Telephone Interpreting A Comprehensive Guide to the Profession year 2008 publisher Trafford Publishing isbn 1425185010 ref 1990 s The demand for telephone interpretation grows significantly contributing factors include decreased prices in long distance calls, Toll free telephone number ... Kevmark, later known as CyraCom International, patents a multiple handset phone adapted for telephone ... more details
In telephone telephony , a call may be placed on hold , in which case the connection is not terminated but no verbal communication is possible until the call is removed from hold by the same or another extension on the key telephone system . Music on hold or On Hold Messaging may be played for the caller while the call is on hold, especially if the call has been placed to a customer service center. Alternatives to placing a caller on hold include virtual hold or virtual queuing solutions that allow scheduled or queue based callbacks to be made to the caller. Telecomm term stub Category Telephony ... more details
Unreferenced date June 2009 Notability date July 2011 Consolidated Telephone is a subsidiary of Consolidated Companies, Inc., a family owned, full service telecommunications company, serving 26 communities and nearly convert 8900 sqmi km2 in west central Nebraska . Consolidated offers telephone, cable television and broadband internet , distance learning, business networking and communications systems, as well as construction services. References reflist External links http www.nebnet.net Consolidated Internet Category Telecommunications companies of the United States Category Companies based in Nebraska ... more details
Articles on Public telephone include Telephones Callbox Courtesy telephone Emergency telephone Payphone Police box Red telephone box Telephone booth Film Public Telephone film Public Telephone film , a 1980 French documentary film disambig ... more details
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