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  • And now Bell Canada is buying Ziply Fiber
  • Verizon to merge with Frontier
  • AT&T Tandem and Jenny List updates
  • Seattle Times article on the Connections Museum
  • New Recordings!
  • A volunteer collective is setting up free pay phones in Philadelphia
  • Jenny I’ve got your number – 867-5309!
  • A Phone Trip to Head Waters, Virginia (Northern Telecom Centurion)
  • Pink Floyd’s Young Lust – Explained and Demystified
  • The Beginning of the End of AT&T Operators Started in 1992
  • The UK Speaking Clock
  • The Old Days -Talkable Busy Signals
  • AT&T and Frontier have let phone networks fall apart
  • Fun with a Number 5 Crossbar and trouble cards!
  • AT&T Central Office in Downtown Nashville is bombed on Christmas Day
  • CenturyLink is now Lumen Technologies
  • Vintage Princess Phones
  • The Death of Sprint
  • How does MF signaling work?
  • Ann Syrdal, Who Helped Give Computers a Female Voice, Dies at 74
  • A very over simplification on how the old phone system used to work.
  • Telephone News coming soon!
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• Category: What's New
  • A Visit to the Ellsworth Telephone Museum – October 2024
  • Preserving a #5ESS Switch for Posterity
  • New Section – Various Virginia Telephone Recordings
  • Site Updates – January 2021
  • Site Updates – November 2020
  • Site updates – August 2020
  • Website (re)construction in progress