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Identifier: belltelephonemag00vol2930amerrich (find matches)
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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Co nstant vigilance at the test desk plays an important part in maintaining the dependa-bility of telephone service I42 Bell Telephone Magazine AUTUMN
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Use of mobile radio telephone service has been extended from one city to 140 in the last decade phone transmitter can work perfectlythrough a last years switchboard anda section of pre-Pearl Harbor cable.But 1950 telephone facilities andservice are measurably ahead of1949s in many respects, and so farahead of 1925s that the latter arenot much more than basically similar.Many of us are already familiar withthe long record of telephone pioneer-ing. Step by step, year by year, therange of service has been increasedand hearing made easier, connectionshave been put through faster and fa-cilities made more convenient and de-pendable. But we dont need to recallpast history to get the evidence ofprogress. It is all around us today. For instance: Three-quarters ofthe Bell Systems telephones are nowdial-operated, compared with two-thirds at the end of the war. Theaverage telephone now is out of orderonly about once in two years—halfas often as a few years ago. Opera-tors today are dialing abo

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