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  2. Pager - Wikipedia

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    An NEC pager branded by Deutsche Telekom for the Skyper pager service Original Motorola "Pageboy II" pager, used in New York in the late 1970s. The first telephone pager system was patented in 1949 by Alfred J. Gross. One of the first practical paging services was launched in 1950 for physicians in the New York City area.

  3. Telephone prefix - Wikipedia

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    Telephone prefix. A telephone prefix is the first set of digits after the country, and area codes of a telephone number. In the North American Numbering Plan countries (country code 1), it is the first three digits of a seven-digit local phone number, the second three digits of the 3-3-4 scheme. In other countries, both the prefix and the ...

  4. List of Nebraska area codes - Wikipedia

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    List of Nebraska area codes. This is a list of telephone area codes in the state of Nebraska . 308: Western Nebraska, including Grand Island and Kearney. 402/531: Eastern Nebraska, including Omaha and Lincoln, overlaid in 2011 [1] Under the original North American Numbering Plan of 1947, area code 402 covered all of Nebraska. Area code 308 was ...

  5. The history of the American phone book - AOL

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    As phone lines became more popular—between 1942 and 1962, the number of phones in the U.S. grew 230% to 76 million—telephone companies realized they would run out of phone numbers.

  6. National conventions for writing telephone numbers - Wikipedia

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    Belgian telephone numbers consist of three parts: First '0', secondly the "zone prefix" ( A) which has one or two digits for landlines and three digits for mobile phones, and thirdly the "subscriber's number" ( B ). Land lines always have nine digits. They are prefixed by a zero, followed by the zone prefix.

  7. Telephone exchange names - Wikipedia

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    Kenmore 9392 is a five-pull (1L-4N) small-city telephone number for the Kenmore exchange in Fort Wayne, Indiana. MArket 7032 is a six-digit (2L-4N) telephone number. This format was in use from the 1920s through the 1950s, and was phased out c. 1960. BALdwin 6828 is an urban 3L-4N example, used only in the largest cities before conversion to ...

  8. Al Gross (engineer) - Wikipedia

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    Al Gross (engineer) Irving " Al " Gross ( / ɡroʊs /; February 22, 1918 – December 21, 2000) was a pioneer in mobile wireless communication. He created and patented many communications devices, specifically in relation to an early version of the walkie-talkie, [1] Citizens' Band radio, [2] the telephone pager [2] and the cordless telephone. [3]

  9. Telephone number - Wikipedia

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    A telephone number is a sequence of digits assigned to a landline telephone subscriber station connected to a telephone line or to a wireless electronic telephony device, such as a radio telephone or a mobile telephone, or to other devices for data transmission via the public switched telephone network (PSTN), or other public and private networks.