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Identifier: belltelephonevol3132mag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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pandin scope. The telephone industryshould not lack potential custom-ers. Every day there are newneeds for telephone communica-tion. JVith a longer life span forhumans and an expanding popula-tion, more homes zvill be kept in-tact—and more homes have al-ways meant more telephones.More industries, more businessesto serve this ever expanding popu-lation, zvill meet the zvants risingfrom a higher standard of livingand bring forth new and complexrequirements for every-day com-munications. lO Bell Telephone Magazine SPRING installed for service in the Fall of1953. Washington customers, forthe most part, and those in suburbanVirginia and Maryland will then beable to dial each other directly andalso make their own calls to Balti-more. Eventually, of course, theywill be able to dial their own callsthroughout the nation. At present, all calls of this type,of which there are thousands daily,are handled on an individual basisfrom many different switchboards inthe Washington area. It has become
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Customer dialiyig of lo)ig distance calls requires co))iplex equipment. The long-range objective is to enable any telephone user in this country and Canada to reach any other simply by dialing the call increasingly difficult to maintain serv-ice economically over this large areaby handling the calls on the presentbasis. When the centralized auto-matic accounting equipment is avail-able, next fall, customers will dial thecalls they want and accounting datafor each call will flow automaticallyinto the new equipment while thedialed call speeds on directly to thecalled telephone. Pending the de-velopment of automatic means foridentifying each calling telephone, anoperator will have to obtain that in-formation from the cus-tomer and route it intothe centralized equip-ment—a matter of onlya few seconds. Theequipment to do thisWashington job is theresult of a great deal ofplanning ahead aboutthis type of problem. These are just two ofthe steps being takentoward the broad objec-tive. Others

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