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  2. Pulse dialing - Wikipedia

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    Most central office systems still support rotary telephones today. Some keypad telephones have a switch or configuration method for the selection of tone or pulse dialing. Mobile telephones and most voice-over-IP systems use out-of-band signaling and do not send any digits until the entire number has been keyed by the user.

  3. Rotary dial - Wikipedia

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    A 1931 Ericsson rotary dial telephone without lettering on the finger wheel, typical of European telephones. The 0 precedes 1. A rotary dial typically features a circular construction. The shaft that actuates the mechanical switching mechanism is driven by the finger wheel, a disk that has ten finger holes aligned close to the circumference.

  4. Vertical service code - Wikipedia

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    On rotary dial telephones, the star is replaced by dialing 11. In North American telephony, VSCs were developed by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) as Custom Local Area Signaling Services (CLASS or LASS) codes in the 1960s and 70s. Their use became ubiquitous throughout the 1990s and eventually became a recognized standard.

  5. Trimline telephone - Wikipedia

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    A 220 Trimline rotary desk phone, showing the innovative rotary dial with moving fingerstop Early Touch Tone Trimline with round buttons and clear plastic backplate and round non-modular handset cord Redesigned touch-tone desk model Trimline, manufactured on January 9, 1985 The Trimline 2225, one of the last phones made at the Indianapolis Works in 1986 Early foreign made Trimline, December ...

  6. List of obsolete technology - Wikipedia

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    Cell phones, VoIP services Still used remote areas with poor cellphone coverage and by some enterprises and conservative users. Pager: Cell phones: Still used in certain industries, especially in the medical industry. Paper address book, Rolodex: Contact list, electronic address book: Personal address books remain common according to preference.

  7. Never lose cell service again with this space-age satellite tech

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    AST SpaceMobile made history in April 2023 by completing the first two-way phone call via space on an unmodified cell phone. This milestone was achieved using its low Earth orbit satellite, Blue ...

  8. What is a ‘wind phone’? Concept helps offer comfort to those ...

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    But the origins of the “Phone of the Wind” can be found over 6,000 miles ... which now holds an old rotary phone. Telephone numbers can still be seen inscribed on the walls from when the booth ...

  9. Telephone - Wikipedia

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    A satellite telephone, or satphone, is a type of mobile phone that connects to other phones or the telephone network by radio link through satellites orbiting the Earth instead of terrestrial cell sites, as cellphones do. Therefore, they can work in most geographic locations on the Earth's surface, as long as open sky and the line-of-sight ...