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Keep your friends at your fingertips, with a cellphone

Keep your friends at your fingertips, with a cellphone By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Staff | April 14, 2008 The Boston G...

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monty

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Too much to expect from an answering machine? [Telecom]

I currently have an AT&T 5840 answering machine base station for wireless handsets. The phones work fine, but the answe...

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midicad2001

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Strowger Switch [telecom]

Almon B. Strowger was granted US patent # 447,918 on 10 march 1891 for an "Automatic Telephone Exchange". He was an und...

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charles.gray

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re: Steppers [Telecom]

> The April, 1999 LERG (the oldest one I have) shows dozens of steppers > still in service, though the LERG isn't alway...

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anthonybellanga

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'I, like, so totally agree' to stop texting / Parents wrestling with soaring cellphone bills put curbs on children [Telecom]

'I, like, so totally agree' to stop texting Parents wrestling with soaring cellphone bills put curbs on children By Car...

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monty

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Switching History (was How's Pat?) [Telecom]

> Wes Leatherock wrote: >> With all due respect, Bell/W.E. did not design SxS. >> That was done by, or at the behest of...

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anthonybellanga

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Re: Origin of SxS [Telecom]

> With all due respect, Bell/W.E. did not design > SxS. That was done by, or at the behest of, a Kansas > City undertak...

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hancock4

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Re: Origin of SxS [Telecom]

>Wes Leatherock wrote: >> With all due respect, Bell/W.E. did not design >> SxS. That was done by, or at the behest of,...

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richgr

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Re: [telecom] How's Pat? [Telecom]

> With all due respect, Bell/W.E. did not design >SxS. That was done by, or at the behest of, a Kansas >City undertaker...

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brucenospambergman

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Re: [telecom] How's Pat? [Telecom] (now Old Bell System)

>since they had discovered by then that not all of the >U.S. is served by great megaplexes and there was also >a need f...

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haynes

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Re: Philadelphia emergency text messaging system [Telecom]

>> You know, something struck me in all of this. What if you no longer >> listen to radio or watch television? I don't...

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anthonybellanga

1 18yrs anthonybellanga

How the Internet works [Telecom]

Best explanation I've seen so far... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgqEIp2YmtE&feature=related ***** Moderator's Note...

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me

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Dead zones frustrate drivers / Cellphone service lags in tunnels

Dead zones frustrate drivers Cellphone service lags in tunnels By Noah Bierman, Globe Staff | April 12, 2008 The Boston...

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monty

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How's Pat? [Telecom]

Hi Bill, I'm curious, as perhaps others on the list may be, as to why there is *no* occasional information on the statu...

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withheld

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[telecom] Re: Carriers keeping hands on the reins

Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:57:21 -0400 Monty Solomon quoted a Cnet story: > Carriers keeping hands on the reins > Posted by Mar...

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joeofseattle

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