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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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hosought wider primary calling areas.However, it was obvious that it wasnot a complete solution, for no mat-ter how close suburban communitieswere drawn together by local devel-opment, they were tied as stronglyto the city as they were to one an- other. The links of employment,friendships, business and professionalacquaintanceships and amusement re-mained strong, and telephone peo-ple foresaw the day when the cityand adjacent communities would betreated as a single metropolitan tele-phone area. When World War II ended, thedam of the citys boundaries crum-bled under the rush for housing.With city land scarce, the veteran inmost cases had to leave the city torits environs, where home construc-tion was booming. The migrationof hundreds of thousands of resi-dents to the suburbs during the post-war years was the climax of a socialchange that had started in the 1920s,and was the final touch in the crea-tion of a metropolitan area encom-passing New York City, southernWestchester, and Nassau.
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A good deal of New York City is visible in this aerial photograph: Manhattan Islandin the center, part of Brooklyn at the right, and some of the Bronx at the top To bring the best service to tele-phone users in this area, the NewYork Telephone Company wouldhave to make one of the largestchanges ever attempted in any tele-phone system—and it was ready todo the job. It brought forward itsNew York Metropolitan Area Serv-ice Plan. Making One Telephone Area The plan proposed the welding ofthe entire region into a single tele-phone area bv : i. Merging 46 suburban ex-changes and the New York Cityexchange into a Metropolitan Ex-change. 2. Providing direct dialing be-tween most of the points within thearea. 3. Broadening the primary callingareas of suburban subscribers. 4. Replacing toll billing of indi-vidual calls within the area withmessage-unit billing in bulk. 5. Extending the scope of themonthly message-unit allowance toapply on calls throughout the 46suburban exchanges as well as onN

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