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Forecasters in the late 1960s underestimated demand, resulting in a shortage of capacity in Manhattan, NYTel's principal profit area. [7] Customers had to wait weeks for a new line or a repair, and sometimes minutes for dial tone on an existing line. The new 1ESS Stored Program Control exchanges had software bugs that kept them from carrying ...
A telephone directory, commonly called a telephone book, telephone address book, phonebook, or the white and yellow pages, is a listing of telephone subscribers in a geographical area or subscribers to services provided by the organization that publishes the directory. Its purpose is to allow the telephone number of a subscriber identified by ...
In 1997, NYNEX was acquired by Bell Atlantic (taking the Bell Atlantic name), which later, in 2000, acquired GTE, the largest independent telephone company. Bell Atlantic later changed its name to Verizon that same year. In 2005, following a protracted bidding war with rival RBOC Qwest, Verizon announced that it would acquire long-distance ...
411 is a telephone number for local directory assistance in Canada and the United States. Until the early 1980s, 411 – and the related 113 number – were free to call in most jurisdictions. In the United States, the service is commonly known as "information", [ 1 ] although its official name is "directory assistance".
Rollman's (Cincinnati) Downtown store location—N.W. corner of 5th and Vine Streets—was taken over by Mabley & Carew after primary and branch Rollman's stores were liquidated in the early 1960s [402] Rudin's (Mount Vernon), sold to Uhlman's in 1979 [403] John Shillito Company (Cincinnati), division of Federated Department Stores.
Pages in category "1960s in the Bronx" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Pages in category "1960 establishments in New York City" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
[19]: 1 While beep lines were not initially illegal in the United States, [16] [b] they were frowned upon by the telephone companies because of their potential to overload a main trunk line in a central office, [4] preventing normal telephone service for a given area and potentially leading to outages for critical lines such as hospitals and ...