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  2. Telephone exchange names - Wikipedia

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    Telephone numbers listed in 1920 in New York City having three-letter exchange prefixes. In the United States, the most-populous cities, such as New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago, initially implemented dial service with telephone numbers consisting of three letters and four digits (3L-4N) according to a system developed by W. G. Blauvelt of AT&T in 1917. [1]

  3. Area codes 408 and 669 - Wikipedia

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    Area codes 408 and 669 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) in the U.S. state of California. The numbering plan area comprises most of Santa Clara County and Northern Santa Cruz County, and includes Gilroy, Morgan Hill, Saratoga, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Milpitas, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Cupertino, Campbell, and ...

  4. List of California area codes - Wikipedia

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    San Jose, Sunnyvale, Gilroy, Morgan Hill, and Los Gatos; most of Santa Clara County. Overlay with 408, started service on November 20, 2012 707: Santa Rosa, Eureka, Sebastopol, Petaluma, Napa, Vallejo, Fairfield; northwestern California, including the northern Bay Area, the Redwood Empire and the Wine Country. Split from 916 on March 1, 1959 714

  5. The history of the American phone book - AOL

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    As phone lines became more popular—between 1942 and 1962, the number of phones in the U.S. grew 230% to 76 million—telephone companies realized they would run out of phone numbers.

  6. Area code 650 - Wikipedia

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    Area code 650 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. It was split from area code 415 on August 2, 1997, and includes most of San Mateo County (except the northernmost portion), part of San Francisco , and the northwestern portion of Santa Clara County ...

  7. List of Internet exchange points - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Internet exchange points . There are several sources for IXP locations, including Packet Clearing House , who have maintained the earliest list of IXPs, with global coverage since 1994.

  8. Telecommunications in France - Wikipedia

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    Telecommunications in France are highly developed. France is served by an extensive system of automatic telephone exchanges connected by modern networks of fiber-optic cable, coaxial cable, microwave radio relay, and a domestic satellite system; cellular telephone service is widely available, expanding rapidly, and includes roaming service to foreign countries.

  9. PSTN network topology - Wikipedia

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    PSTN network topology is the switching network topology of a telephone network connected to the public switched telephone network (PSTN).. In the United States and Canada, the Bell System network topology was the switching system hierarchy implemented and operated from c. 1930 to the 1980s for the purpose of integrating the diverse array of local telephone companies and telephone numbering ...