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  2. Telephone keypad - Wikipedia

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    These letter assignments have been used for multiple purposes. Originally, they referred to the leading letters of telephone exchange names. In the mid-20th century United States, before the switch to All-Number Calling, telephone numbers had seven digits, including a two-digit prefix which was expressed in letters rather than digits, e.g.; KL5 ...

  3. Advanced Mobile Phone System - Wikipedia

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    Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS) was an analog mobile phone system standard originally developed by Bell Labs and later modified in a cooperative effort between Bell Labs and Motorola. It was officially introduced in the Americas on October 13, 1983, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and was deployed in many other countries too, including Israel in 1986 ...

  4. Telephone exchange names - Wikipedia

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    Telephone numbers listed in 1920 in New York City having three-letter exchange prefixes. In the United States, the most-populous cities, such as New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago, initially implemented dial service with telephone numbers consisting of three letters and four digits (3L-4N) according to a system developed by W. G. Blauvelt of AT&T in 1917. [1]

  5. FXO and FXS - Wikipedia

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    Local number portability allows an existing number to be moved to VoIP (or, in some countries, a mobile telephone) which can then be freely moved out of the original geographic location while keeping the directory listing and service area unchanged. A foreign exchange office (FXO) device plays the role of an analog phone.

  6. Phoneword - Wikipedia

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    The main advantages of phonewords over standard phone numbers include increased memorability and increased response rates to advertising. They are easier to remember than numeric phone numbers; thus, when businesses use them as a direct response tool in their advertising (radio, television, print, outdoor, etc.), their memorability tends to have a favorable effect on response rates.

  7. Verizon (wireless service) - Wikipedia

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    Verizon is an American wireless network operator that previously operated as a separate division of Verizon Communications under the name Verizon Wireless. In a 2019 reorganization, Verizon moved the wireless products and services into the divisions Verizon Consumer and Verizon Business , and stopped using the Verizon Wireless name.

  8. List of telephone switches - Wikipedia

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    NEAX12 (Analog / Digital Hybrid PBX) NEAX22 (Analog / Digital hybrid PBX) NEAX 2000/1000; NEAX2400 (Fully Digital PBX) XN120; NEC Univerge SL1000 (Small or Medium Sized, VoIP And TDM) Enterprise IP Systems NEC Univerge SV7000 (Fully IP, VoIP and TDM) Pure IP Communication server; NEC Univerge SV8100 (Fully IP, VoIP and TDM)

  9. Rotary dial - Wikipedia

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    The Australian letter-to-number mapping was A=1, B=2, F=3, J=4, L=5, M=6, U=7, W=8, X=9, Y=0, so the phone number BX 3701 was in fact 29 3701. When Australia around 1960 changed to all-numeric telephone dials, a mnemonic to help people associate letters with numbers was the sentence, "All Big Fish Jump Like Mad Under Water eXcept Yabbies ."