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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. Physicians paid US$12 per month for the service and carried a 200-gram (7 oz) pager that would receive phone messages within 40 kilometres (25 mi) of a single ...
8 December 1929: Opening of commercial ship-to-shore telephone service. 3 April 1930: Opening of transoceanic telephone service to Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay and subsequently to all other South American countries. 1931: The Ericsson DBH 1001 telephone was the first telephone without a separate ringer box.
By 2000 there were 2 million telephone booths. Only 300,000 pay telephones remained in service by 2014, mostly in New York City, and they were nearly all gone by 2020. Rural telephone service. AT&T usually ignored high-cost low-profit service to farmers.
The original long-distance telephone network actually started in 1885, in New York City. By 1892 this line reached Chicago. After introducing loading coils in 1899, the long-distance line continued west, and by 1911 it reached Denver, Colorado. The president of AT&T, Theodore Vail, committed the company to a transcontinental line in 1909.
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]
The switchboard was an essential component of a manual telephone exchange, and was operated by switchboard operators who used electrical cords or switches to establish the connections. The electromechanical automatic telephone exchange, invented by Almon Strowger in 1888, gradually replaced manual switchboards in central telephone exchanges ...
New York telephone exchange in the 1880s, with both men and women as operators Paris telephone exchange, 1900 History Telephone operators in Stockholm, Sweden 1902–1903. In January 1878 George Willard Croy became the world's first telephone operator when he started working for the Boston Telephone Dispatch company.
In 1986 Cooper co-founded Cellular Payphone Inc. (CPPI), the parent company of GreatCall, Inc., Innovator of the Jitterbug cell phone (in partnership with Samsung). GreatCall is the first complete end-to-end value-added service provider in the cellular industry to focus on simplicity with its primary emphasis on senior citizens. Arraycomm