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  2. Telephone exchange names - Wikipedia

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    Telephone exchange names often provide a historical, memorable, and even nostalgic context, personal connection, or identity to a community. They can therefore often be found in popular culture, such as music, art, and prose. An old 2L-5N format appears in the song title "PEnnsylvania 6-5000" (phone number PE 6-5000), recorded by Glenn Miller.

  3. Telephone exchange - Wikipedia

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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 enterprise telecommunications systems. It facilitates the interconnection of telephone subscriber lines or digital system virtual circuits, enabling telephone calls between subscribers.

  4. List of telephone exchanges in London - Wikipedia

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    Telephones on automatic exchanges had letters as well as numbers marked on the telephone dial, and calls to London numbers used the first three letters of the exchange name followed by four digits, e.g. EUS 1234. [2] The number could be dialled as 387-1234 or spoken to a manual exchange operator as Euston 1234.

  5. History of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    Antonio Meucci, Alexander Graham Bell, and Elisha Gray amongst others, have all been credited with the telephone's invention. The early history of the telephone became and still remains a confusing morass of claims and counterclaims, which were not clarified by the huge number of lawsuits filed in order to resolve the patent claims of the many ...

  6. History of telephone numbers in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Exchange names were usually closely tied to the physical location of telephone exchanges, being either the name of a city, town or village or district. The length of early telephone numbers depended on the number of subscribers attached to a particular exchange: if there were fewer than 10 subscribers, a single digit sufficed.

  7. Timeline of the telephone - Wikipedia

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    10 September 1879: Connolly and McTighe patent a "dial" telephone exchange (limited in the number of lines to the number of positions on the dial.). 1879: The International Bell Telephone Company (IBTC) of Brussels, Belgium was founded by Bell Telephone Company president Gardiner Greene Hubbard , initially to sell imported telephones and ...

  8. List of United States telephone companies - Wikipedia

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    Claro Puerto Rico, which serves every exchange in Puerto Rico, has been owned by the international telecommunications giant América Móvil since in 2007. Ziply Fiber, which serves ex-GTE areas in the Pacific Northwest that they bought from Frontier. Many other individual communities or smaller regions are also served by non-RBOC companies.

  9. Seven-digit dialing - Wikipedia

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    Telephone numbers had typically two to four digits, depending on the size of the community. As the number of subscribers grew, multiple exchanges served individual neighborhoods of large cities. Multiple exchanges were identified by a central office name and typically four digits, such as "Pennsylvania 5000".