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  2. Argos (retailer) - Wikipedia

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    Argos was launched with thousands of staff, taking £1 million during a week in November. [10] Argos was purchased by BAT Industries in 1979 for £32 million. In 1980, Argos opened its Elizabeth Duke jewellery counter (named after a director's wife) and by 1982, was the United Kingdom's fourth-biggest jewellery retailer.

  3. List of Canadian telephone companies - Wikipedia

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    Bell Canada & * BCE Inc.* - including Bell Aliant* (which itself integrated Manitoba Telecom Services; NorthernTel; Ontera; and MT&T, NewTel, NBTel, and IslandTel), Northwestel,* and Télébec* Birch Communications

  4. Walmart Canada - Wikipedia

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    Walmart Canada is a Canadian retail corporation, discount retailer and the Canadian subsidiary of the U.S.-based multinational retail conglomerate Walmart.Headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, it was founded on March 17, 1994, with the purchase of the Woolco Canada chain from the F. W. Woolworth Company.

  5. Lineman's handset - Wikipedia

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    A typical lineman's handset integrates an earpiece, a mouthpiece, a dialing interface, and a set of test leads for connecting to the telephone circuit. Originally, lineman's handsets featured a rotary dial , but modern sets use some variant of the standard 12-button DTMF keypad and also employ an amplifier for speaker use.

  6. Landline - Wikipedia

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    Landline service is typically provided through the outside plant of a telephone company's central office, or wire center. The outside plant comprises tiers of cabling between distribution points in the exchange area, so that a single pair of copper wire, or an optical fiber, reaches each subscriber location, such as a home or office, at the network interface.

  7. Telecommunications in Canada - Wikipedia

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    The All Red Line cable for the British Empire.Canada as an interconnection-point. c.a. 1903. The history of telegraphy in Canada dates back to the Province of Canada.While the first telegraph company was the Toronto, Hamilton and Niagara Electro-Magnetic Telegraph Company, founded in 1846, it was the Montreal Telegraph Company, controlled by Hugh Allan and founded a year later, that dominated ...

  8. Who still owns a landline phone? You might be surprised at ...

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    Fewer than one-quarter of Americans still have landlines. More than three-quarters of Americans live in homes without landlines: 76% of adults and 87% of children, as of the end of 2023, according ...

  9. Cordless telephone - Wikipedia

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    Two cordless telephones 3 VTech cordless landline phones A Panasonic KX-TG2226B 2.4GHz cordless phone with answering machine. A cordless telephone or portable telephone has a portable telephone handset that connects by radio to a base station connected to the public telephone network. The operational range is limited, usually to the same ...