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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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he com-plex will be self-sufficient, withservices planned so the residentnever should have to leave hisneighborhood except to go to a ballgame or the airport as one TexasEastern official put it. trend of telephone service forHouston Center. Neither custom calling servicesnor Picturephone service has beenintroduced in Houston. Conse-quently, rates are yet to be workedout, but both services eventuallywill be available—including inter-city Picturephone service. South-western is to construct a three-storycentral office equipment building,framed for 20 floors, near the com-plex. Picturephone service will beprovided through a nearby 17-storytoll center, which is equipped withcrossbar equipment required for theservice and which will facilitateintercity service. Serving the center will involvea completely different concept ofoutside plant, says Ross Anderson,Southwesterns plant extension en-gineer. For example, he joked, ifwe were to put our equipment build-ing inside the complex, the cable
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32 Phase I of the project began thisyear with completion scheduledaround 1975. The final phase hope-fully will be finished by 1990. Likeeverything else, it all depends on theeconomy. If Phase I is completed asplanned, it will represent about athird of the total project. To serve Houstons city of tomor-row, Southwestern Bell is makingready to provide the ultimate intelecommunications. ElectronicSwitching Systems (ESS) will pro-vide service. Custom calling,Touch-Tone8 and Picturephone5 serviceswill be available for those custom-ers who want them. The problem is, says commer-cial engineer Ed Chronister, thereis no telling now what the custom-ers are going to want or how muchthey will be willing to pay for it.That ultimately will decide the vault would probably be on a fourthfloor instead of the basement, whichwould require a flood of epic pro-portions to damage it. Andersonexplained that a series of utilitycorridors to carry telephone conduitand gas and electric lines will berun througho

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