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In January 1878, the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company had started hiring boys as telephone operators, starting with George Willard Croy. [5] Boys (reportedly including Nutt's husband [2]) had been very successful as telegraphy operators, but their attitude (lack of patience) and behavior (pranks and cursing) were unacceptable for live phone contact, [6] so the company began hiring women ...
The percentage of the workforce that was female was somewhat lower in western Canada. In 1917, 18 percent of the operators in Winnipeg were women. [8] During the First World War, employment on "the Home Front" included women telegraphers; for example, Beamsville, Ontario, which was also the location of an dogfighting (aerial combat) school. [9].
The Spanish authorizes Eastern Extension to construct and operate the first submarine cable linking the Philippines and Hong Kong. A telephone network was established in Iloilo City in 1894. Jose de Olagier y Feliu requested permission from the Spanish Officials in the Philippines in 1892 to operate a telephone network covering the Spanish ...
As the U.S. prepared to enter World War I, the Navy Department began a program to train women as radio operators who could be called into action in the event of war. The Girls' Division of the United States Junior Naval Reserve established training camps at the Martha Washington Post, in Edgewater, New Jersey, and the Betsy Ross Post, at Bay ...
–Women in Asia are reaching the top of the corporate world –How Singapore’s Jenny Lee wants to rethink venture capital –Xiaohongshu and its young, female, Chinese user base are ...
The Netphone was introduced as the world's first smartphone backed by an operator-managed platform. On August 25, 2012, [13] Smart launched the Philippines' first 4G mobile broadband commercial service running on LTE technology. On April 13, 2016, [14] Smart introduced the first commercial LTE-A Service in Boracay, Aklan.
Touch Mobile was started as the first mobile brand in the Philippines that introduced voice messaging system in 2001. Due to the majority of SMS users, the voice messaging system was discontinued and instead focused on SMS-based services. Logo used from 2009 to 2019.
A member of the 52nd Telegraph Battalion speaks on a telephone at a crossroads in the Argonne Wood near Montfaucon, Meuse, France in 1918, during World War I. Credit - US Army/Getty Images