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  2. Qwest - Wikipedia

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    Founded in 1996 by Philip Anschutz, Qwest began in an unconventional way.Anschutz, who owned the Southern Pacific Transportation Company at the time, established the subsidiary Southern Pacific Telecommunications Company and began installing the first [where?] [citation needed] all-digital, fiber-optic infrastructure along his railroad lines and connecting them into central junctions in ...

  3. QLT Consumer Lease Services - Wikipedia

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    The company provides telephone leasing services to residences and small businesses in the United States. These services include next business day replacement of the leased product for any reason. QLT CLS leases the following models [1] made by Western Electric: Traditional 500/554 Rotary Phone; Traditional 2500/2554 Touch-Tone Telephone

  4. Party line (telephony) - Wikipedia

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    A party line (multiparty line, shared service line, party wire) is a local loop telephone circuit that is shared by multiple telephone service subscribers. [1] [2] [3]Party line systems were widely used to provide telephone service, starting with the first commercial switchboards in 1878. [4]

  5. Pacific Bell - Wikipedia

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    [4]: p51 It was later revealed that the city's supervisors had received payoffs through Ruef from both the Home Telephone Company and Pacific States Telephone Co. Home Telephone paid 10 supervisors $3,500 each and seven supervisors $6,000 each (about $118,689 to $203,467 in 2024). Pacific States Telephone Co. paid 10 supervisors $5,000 each ...

  6. Telephone numbers in the United Arab Emirates - Wikipedia

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    The overall structure of the UAE's national numbering plan is: Landline numbers begin with: [1] 01 Al Karama (Canceled); 02 Abu Dhabi; 03 Al Ain; 04 Dubai; 05 mobile number; 06 Sharjah, Ajman and Umm al-Quwain

  7. Mobile telephone numbering in India - Wikipedia

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    In India, mobile numbers (including pagers) on GSM, WCDMA, LTE and NR networks start with either 9, 8, 7 or 6.Each telecom circle is allowed to have multiple private operators; earlier it was two private + BSNL/MTNL, subsequently it changed to three private + BSNL/MTNL in GSM; now each telecom circle has all four operators including Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone idea ltd and BSNL/MTNL.

  8. Alltel - Wikipedia

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    Alltel was a landline, wireless and general telecommunications services provider, primarily based in the United States.Before its wireless division was acquired by Verizon Wireless and AT&T, Alltel provided cellular service to 34 states and had approximately 13 million subscribers.

  9. Telephone numbers in Spain - Wikipedia

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    016, implemented in 2007 by the national government, is a telephone number meant for reporting cases of violence against women. Calls to this number do not appear in the phone bill. [16] 112 is the generic emergency number.