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Post# 1056550   1/5/2020 at 06:29 (1,544 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Is this the party to whom I am speaking?
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Post# 1056551 , Reply# 1   1/5/2020 at 06:30 (1,544 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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All about vintage telephones up to 1989. Advertisements, humor, history, collections, equipment, restoration/repair, technical questions, resources or just plain memories, it's all here. While emphasis is placed on American telephones, vintage telephones from around the world are also most welcomed.
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Post# 1056553 , Reply# 2   1/5/2020 at 06:33 (1,544 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1056555 , Reply# 3   1/5/2020 at 06:35 (1,544 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1056556 , Reply# 4   1/5/2020 at 06:37 (1,544 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1056557 , Reply# 5   1/5/2020 at 06:39 (1,544 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1056813 , Reply# 6   1/7/2020 at 20:52 (1,542 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1056822 , Reply# 7   1/7/2020 at 23:18 (1,542 days old) by abcomatic (Bradford, Illinois)   |   | |
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When I was a young kid in the early 1950's, we lived on a farm and our number was 2 long and 2 short. |
Post# 1057126 , Reply# 8   1/10/2020 at 08:37 (1,539 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1057353 , Reply# 9   1/12/2020 at 09:39 (1,537 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1060125 , Reply# 11   2/10/2020 at 05:20 (1,508 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1060190 , Reply# 12   2/10/2020 at 17:26 (1,508 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)   |   | |
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911 was only introduced (allowed in the phone system) 50 years ago--it took over 10 years before it came to our town in suburban St. Louis (Southwestern Bell ILEC) in suburban St. Louis. The US does not have a national phone network (we have local monopolies; regulated at both the state AND national level; largest of which was the Bell system; as opposed to most other countries where the phone company was part of the PTT (post/telephone/telegraph)). Canada has a similar structure as the US as well.
The structure of the phone systems under the North America Numbering Plan (i.e. country code 1) is quite different than the rest of the world, and has filtered down to a lot of why we do things "like we do"...as a for instance, you never know by the number whether you're calling a landline or a mobile when dialing; therefore calling-party-pays is not a "thing" here (too tough to implement with the diversity in phone companies out there). 911 is funded and regulated at the local/state level (so there are still a few very rural areas without 911 still!) I've worked in 911 for the last 15 years, so any questions I'm happy to sound off! |
Post# 1060232 , Reply# 13   2/11/2020 at 07:02 (1,507 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1060916 , Reply# 14   2/18/2020 at 21:38 (1,500 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1062021 , Reply# 15   3/2/2020 at 04:38 (1,487 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Most Of The Last Remaining Pay Phones In NYC Will Be Ripped Out
While the private, walk-in phone booths of yesteryear have been nearly extinct for well over a decade in New York City, many open-air pay phones have remained, jammed into the concrete sidewalks, coin-operated totems to our analog days. But like the iconic phone booth before them ( of which there are only four left), their days are now numbered. Along 9th Avenue in Hell's Kitchen there are enough non-booth public pay phones left that some locals have complained, saying they eat up valuable sidewalk space and aren't well-maintained by CityBridge, a consortium that installs, operates, and maintains public communications structures in NYC. Hearing their complaints, City Council Speaker Corey Johnson contacted the commissioner of the Department of Information, Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) late last year to facilitate in their removal. “My office has received numerous community complaints from local residents about these antiquated pay phones, which present public safety and quality of life issues," Johnson said in a statement to Gothamist Friday. "Additionally, they take up sorely needed sidewalk space that could better serve people with disabilities, families with strollers and ease sidewalk congestion.” All in all, thirty will be removed in Hell's Kitchen, along 9th Avenue from West 23rd to 57th Street, by the end of March. After that, DoITT will uproot about 3,000 pay phones all over the city. While they are committed to removing all of their pay phones, not all pay phones are controlled by CityBridge, so you may still see a few out there.
This is all part of the planned long goodbye to the aging network of public phones, as CityBridge brings in more revenue-generating LinkNYC kiosks. Some of these Hell's Kitchen pay phones, and the ones taken down after them, will be replaced by those newer machines, which CityBridge also oversees, though there are no immediate plans for their installation.
It's worth noting that those remaining booths — all on the Upper West Side — will remain in place, per an agreement, and will continue to be maintained by CityBridge. They also now provide free phone calls. You'll find them on West End Avenue around 66th, 90th, 100th and 101st streets. CLICK HERE TO GO TO Ultramatic's LINK |
Post# 1064809 , Reply# 16   3/27/2020 at 13:44 (1,462 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1065035 , Reply# 18   3/29/2020 at 10:15 (1,460 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1065059 , Reply# 19   3/29/2020 at 12:58 (1,460 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)   |   | |
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Interesting, that quarantine ad. That company was merged/assimilated into Ohio Bell sometime subsequent to that (50 miles south in Cincinnati the Bell affiliate, Cincinnati Bell, was never assimilated)....they were the best phone system I've ever experienced when I lived there... Fascinating fact---the independent phone companies (Frontier/GTE/Windstream/…) were actually the innovators/first to market in certain parts of the business (dial phones; 911)...believe the inventor was Strowger who started Automatic Electric (which was a big manufacturer for the independents).
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Post# 1065612 , Reply# 20   4/2/2020 at 13:03 (1,456 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1066102 , Reply# 22   4/5/2020 at 18:09 (1,453 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1066110 , Reply# 23   4/5/2020 at 18:35 (1,453 days old) by kd12 (Arkansas)   |   | |
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Louis, thanks! |
Post# 1066111 , Reply# 24   4/5/2020 at 18:35 (1,453 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1068937 , Reply# 26   4/23/2020 at 22:38 (1,435 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1068938 , Reply# 27   4/23/2020 at 22:41 (1,435 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1068989 , Reply# 28   4/24/2020 at 06:09 (1,434 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan)   |   | |
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of communication ever were to fail, ham radio operators woiuld be the exception. |
Post# 1069214 , Reply# 29   4/25/2020 at 11:54 (1,433 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1070619 , Reply# 34   5/3/2020 at 10:33 (1,425 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 1070785 , Reply# 35   5/4/2020 at 10:11 (1,424 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1070787 , Reply# 36   5/4/2020 at 10:24 (1,424 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1075064 , Reply# 43   5/30/2020 at 21:08 (1,398 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area)   |   | |
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I had a friend in the early 80's that was an electronic switching system tech for Cincinnati Bell. He told me they were installing the 5ESS during that time. |
Post# 1077450 , Reply# 44   6/16/2020 at 20:59 (1,381 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1077451 , Reply# 45   6/16/2020 at 21:00 (1,381 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1077452 , Reply# 46   6/16/2020 at 21:02 (1,381 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1077453 , Reply# 47   6/16/2020 at 21:04 (1,381 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1077530 , Reply# 48   6/17/2020 at 13:16 (1,380 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan)   |   | |
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"Wats wrong with working for the phone company?" |
Post# 1080326 , Reply# 49   7/8/2020 at 11:21 (1,359 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1080327 , Reply# 50   7/8/2020 at 11:22 (1,359 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1080328 , Reply# 51   7/8/2020 at 11:24 (1,359 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1080329 , Reply# 52   7/8/2020 at 11:26 (1,359 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1080330 , Reply# 53   7/8/2020 at 11:27 (1,359 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1081520 , Reply# 54   7/18/2020 at 14:04 (1,349 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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FCC: Phone carriers that profit from robocalls could have all calls blockedSafe harbor lets phone companies block all calls from “bad-actor” telecoms.CLICK HERE TO GO TO Ultramatic's LINK |
Post# 1081585 , Reply# 55   7/19/2020 at 07:48 (1,348 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)   |   | |
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Love these old ads. I was recently on FB with some former co-workers who were reminiscing about how terrific our group was...it got me thinking about my work history in telecom--I got into cellular in 1992 and it has been a wonderful ride; with (at various times) amazingly cool people doing very cool innovative things literally around the world. Thanks to Dave Wielgus, John Cregier, Linda Rosenberg and Sal Butindaro at United States Cellular for kicking off a great ride!
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Post# 1083730 , Reply# 56   8/3/2020 at 09:56 (1,333 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1083731 , Reply# 57   8/3/2020 at 09:58 (1,333 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1083733 , Reply# 58   8/3/2020 at 09:59 (1,333 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1083736 , Reply# 60   8/3/2020 at 10:02 (1,333 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1087937 , Reply# 64   9/4/2020 at 13:29 (1,301 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 1087952 , Reply# 66   9/4/2020 at 15:48 (1,301 days old) by ken (NYS)   |   | |
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Post# 1088011 , Reply# 67   9/5/2020 at 08:58 (1,300 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 1089087 , Reply# 68   9/12/2020 at 04:37 (1,294 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1090675 , Reply# 70   9/25/2020 at 13:36 (1,280 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1090737 , Reply# 71   9/26/2020 at 01:41 (1,280 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1091496 , Reply# 72   10/1/2020 at 12:26 (1,274 days old) by iej (.... )   |   | |
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Introducing, Beatrice "Beetie" Bellman who represented BT through the 1980s, played by Maureen Lipman.
This one involves appliances:
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Post# 1094878 , Reply# 73   10/28/2020 at 01:18 (1,248 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1095253 , Reply# 74   10/31/2020 at 04:56 (1,245 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1095918 , Reply# 75   11/5/2020 at 06:25 (1,239 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1095941 , Reply# 76   11/5/2020 at 10:05 (1,239 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area)   |   | |
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My Aunt Doris had a white 554 in the kitchen of the house they lived in from '63 to '91. Several other relatives and friends had them in various colors. If they think that's "ugly", they should see the Automatic Electric model 90. Several neighbors had those, as this immediate area was a GTE territory. |
Post# 1096005 , Reply# 77   11/5/2020 at 21:02 (1,239 days old) by Davey7 (Chicago)   |   | |
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I love that Miriam Margolyes is in the one BT advert! She is such a hoot in real life. |
Post# 1096810 , Reply# 78   11/12/2020 at 05:36 (1,232 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1100152 , Reply# 81   12/10/2020 at 21:07 (1,204 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1100499 , Reply# 82   12/13/2020 at 22:06 (1,201 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1100516 , Reply# 83   12/14/2020 at 07:41 (1,200 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)   |   | |
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Love that graphic. Having worked in telecom nearly all my career, I think one of those "looking glass" moments for me was in about 1999, sitting in a hotel lobby in Buenos Aires, talking on my normal cell phone back to my folks in St. Louis (we put in the network to make that happen for Movicom)...this was when GSM and SIM cards was an rather exotic system from Europe which had just come to the US for about 2-3 years.
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Post# 1102047 , Reply# 84   12/26/2020 at 12:53 (1,188 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1102284 , Reply# 86   12/28/2020 at 09:25 (1,186 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)   |   | |
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I'm not sure of the association between Ericsson and North Supply except for the Ericofon... as opposed to (nearly) every other country the US had a significant non-Bell (i.e. non-PTT) telecom ecosystem both on the telco side as well as on the supplier side. Companies like GTE/Contel/Alltel/United Telespectrum/Century had significant subscriber numbers (multiple millions of landline customers each), plus there were literally thousands of smaller LECs. The level of diversity within telecom has had its good points, (high teledensity) as well as bad points (no such thing as calling-party-pays when you've got that many telephone companies to settle with). It was very interesting how cellular followed the differential paths (with the EU coalescing around GSM to replace NMT, with north America coalescing around a dual technology path (CDMA and TDMA).
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Post# 1103093 , Reply# 88   1/4/2021 at 04:50 (1,179 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1109740 , Reply# 91   2/27/2021 at 17:12 (1,125 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1109751 , Reply# 93   2/27/2021 at 19:23 (1,125 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)   |   | |
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Post# 1110329 , Reply# 94   3/5/2021 at 23:08 (1,119 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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I was forced to switch to a fiber optic line from traditional copper. They came yesterday and installed a box with a line into the main phone jack. And another box with a battery back-up so the phone will have "stand-by" power for 8 hours. Of course, using the phone on battery will dramatically reduce this "stand-by"time. It uses 12, D-Cell batteries that will be on your dime. Batteries "should" last a year. Today, the new digital landline failed. I can make calls, but not receive them. Copper phone service here had NEVER failed. Nice going Verizon! |
Post# 1111860 , Reply# 95   3/17/2021 at 20:17 (1,107 days old) by sarahperdue (Alabama)   |   | |
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Post# 1111943 , Reply# 96   3/18/2021 at 15:53 (1,106 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan)   |   | |
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from Laugh in! Of course, since that phone company was dissolved, our rates have also steadily risen. No such thing as long distance anymore. |
Post# 1112141 , Reply# 97   3/20/2021 at 17:20 (1,104 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1112148 , Reply# 98   3/20/2021 at 19:13 (1,104 days old) by kenwashesmonday (Carlstadt, NJ)   |   | |
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Wow, he can stop by here any time! |
Post# 1112164 , Reply# 99   3/20/2021 at 22:08 (1,104 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area)   |   | |
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After he gets done at Ken's, he can come see me! |
Post# 1113423 , Reply# 100   4/1/2021 at 05:20 (1,092 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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