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  2. KX telephone boxes - Wikipedia

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    KX100 telephone box with 1991 branding. The KX series of telephone boxes in the United Kingdom was introduced by BT (British Telecom) in 1985. Following the privatisation of BT in 1984, the company decided to create a newly designed and improved take on the British telephone box, which at this point consisted of only red telephone boxes which BT had recently acquired, the most common being the ...

  3. BT Smart Hub - Wikipedia

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    With each BT Home Hub released up to 2.0, a new phone model was made to accompany it: BT Home Hub 1.0: was supplied with the BT Hub Phone 1010; BT Home Hub 1.5: was supplied with the BT Hub Phone 1020 (The only difference between the 1010 and the 1020 was the lack of the colour screen and supporting features on the 1020.)

  4. British telephone socket - Wikipedia

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    This plate is fitted by the consumer inside the NTE 5 and reduces interference carried by the 3rd (bell) wire. The reduced interference allows faster broadband speeds - BT claim a speed improvement of up to 1.5 Mbit/s with a theoretical 4 Mbit/s. By November 2009 BT were calling the I-plate a "BT Broadband Accelerator".

  5. Telephone exchange - Wikipedia

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    Marconi System X originally developed by the British Post Office (later BT), GEC, Plessey and STC, is a type of digital exchange used by BT Group in the UK public telephone network. A digital exchange (Nortel DMS-100) used by an operator to offer local and long-distance services in France. Each switch typically serves 10,000–100,000 ...

  6. Digital access carrier system - Wikipedia

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    Digital access carrier system (DACS) is the name used by British Telecom (BT Group plc) in the United Kingdom for a 0+2 pair gain system. Two Telspec DACS remote units mounted on a pole Usage

  7. System X (telephony) - Wikipedia

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    The first local digital exchange started operation in 1981 in Woodbridge, Suffolk (near BT's Research HQ at Martlesham Heath). BT's last electromechanical trunk exchange (in Thurso , Scotland ) was closed in July 1990, completing the UK's trunk network transition to purely digital operation and becoming the first national telephone system to ...

  8. Lineman's handset - Wikipedia

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    A lineman's handset typically connects via a pair of test leads, not the modular connector found on most consumer telephone equipment. The test leads will feature some combination of alligator clips (to connect to bare wires), a piercing spike or "bed-of-nails" (for insulated wires), and something designed to fit a punch block.

  9. Samsung SPH-N270 - Wikipedia

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    The Samsung SPH-N270 or Matrix phone is a bar style mobile phone released in 2003, made to resemble the phone used in The Matrix Reloaded.The design crew of the Matrix worked closely with Samsung to develop a phone whose features and release date would coincide with the movie.