A Retford resident, who has dedicated more than 60 years to the NHS, says she still loves her job as a Switchboard Operator – and has no plans to stop.

George Willard Coy (1836 to 1915), a Civil War veteran, obtained a telephone franchise from the Bell Telephone Co., established earlier that year. He opened the District Telephone Company of New Haven ...

Early magneto wall telephone using dry cells, manufactured in 1917 by Julius Andrae and Sons Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA ...

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“(Mostly) friendly operators sat at switchboards and plugged cords into jacks to make the connection.” One of the exhibit’s highlights is a working Strowger switch—an invention that changed ...

Hundreds of patients and their relatives are distressed as they cannot contact the Steve Biko and Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg hospitals because of broken telephone switchboards. I tested the numbers ...

Sen. Lisa Murkowski said the Senate’s phones were receiving 1,600 calls each minute, compared with the usual 40 calls per minute.

And nowhere is the impact more apparent than the beleaguered congressional phone system, a major conduit for citizens to contact their representatives in Washington that in recent days has been ...

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I am lowering my rating for Telephone and Data Systems stock from buy to hold, as the stock is now fairly valued with balanced upside and downside risk. The primary focus is on the US Cellular ...