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Identifier: bellvol24telephonemag00amerrich (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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d the physical prop-erties of the Keystone company, op-erated approximately 465,000 sta-tions in Philadelphia. Preliminary Steps The first step in the purchase ofthe Keystone system was an agree- January 30, 1941, the New JerseyCompany filed an application withthe Federal Communications Com-mission asking its approval of thepurchase of this stock. An amendedpetition was filed on July 23, 1942,in which the Bell of Pennsylvaniajoined, asking that approval also be I945~4^ Dw«/ Telephone Service Ends in Philadelphia 313 jriven to the purchase of the physicalproperties of the Keystone system bythe two Bell companies. The FCC held seventeen days ofhearings in 1941 and 1942 and took1,449 pages of testimony. It ap-proved the proposed purchase In Ice, and in selecting between such tele-phones in calling other persons whosubscribe to only one of the services,the FCC order stated. This dualservice involves duplication of lineand line structures, central offices,and telephones and duplication of
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Western Electric installers at work on the frames of a new dial private branchexchange system being installed in a large Philadelphia bank to replace a combina-tion of Bell manual service and a private dial system which connected with Keystone March, 1943, stating that consolida-tion will be of advantage to the per-sons to whom service is to be ren-dered and in the public interest. Users within the competitiveareas are inconvenienced by the ne-cessity of having two telephones inorder to obtain comprehensive serv- costs for maintaining and operatingseparate facilities whose functioncould be served by a unified plant. We find . . . that disadvantagesto particular users which may resultfrom this program of acquisition andconsolidation proposed by applicantsare outweighed by the benefits to the 3H Bell Telephone Magazine WINTER A mcctinj^ ot the Keystone stock-holders was held on June 22, 1943,to approve the sale of the physicalproperties to the Bell companies, togive up the companys tele

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