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	Telephone exchange - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the field of telecommunications, a telephone exchange or central office houses equipment that is commonly known as simply a switch, which is a piece of equipment that connects phone calls.
		Certain number combinations were not amenable to this naming process, such as "57," "95" and "97;" it was in part due to this factor that the name system was eventually abandoned, as more numbers were needed to prevent a given area code from running out of available numbers.
		Telephone switches are usually owned and operated by a telephone service provider or "carrier" and located in their premises, but sometimes individual businesses or private commercial buildings will house their own switch, called a PBX, or Private Branch Exchange.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Telephone_exchange (4764 words)

	The Telephone EXchange Name Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		I had assumed that this was also true during the period when exchange names were in use, but we discovered phone numbers with 0 as the second digit (this was a phone number which was not written using an exchange name however).
		Originally, the central office name was also the exchange name, and the central office was often named for the town or street where it was located.
		An exchange name is a word that is used to represent the first two letters of a 7 digit telephone number (exchange names have nothing to do with area codes or country codes).
	ourwebhome.com /TENP/TENproject.html (1581 words)

	Privateline.com Telephone History: EXchange Numbers
		Yet for forty years the most bizarre exchange names flooded the country and the entire telephone system was based on this riot of numbers and letters.
		Starting in 1879, then, scarcely three years after the telephone was invented, the switch to assigning a customer a number began, with a four digit code being typical.
		Exchanges were later named for landmarks, famous families, city neighborhoods, and so on.
	www.privateline.com /TelephoneHistory3A/numbers.html (1481 words)

	London Director system exchange names
		For example, if LORds exchange had been called something different, the GPO would have described the area served as 'Maida Vale and St. John's Wood'.
		Some of the things I have put down as justification for name may in fact be derivations from the exchange name.
		I suspect that Elgar Avenue was built after Elgar exchange got its name and that the exchange may in fact have had an influence on the name of the Avenue.
	www.rhaworth.myby.co.uk /phreak/tenp_01.htm (353 words)

	[No title]
		Subject: Old London Telephone Exchange Names Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 14:00:41 +0100 I received an e-mail recently inquiring about the old exchange names in London, and thought a general posting might be of interest.
		Toward the end of named exchanges when it was becoming harder to come up with suitable names for vacant prefixes, the poetical/literary series of names were used: BYRon, KEAts, WORdsworth, etc. *3.
		Subject: Re: Old London Telephone Exchange Names Pat, Re the list of old London exchange names which is archived here: http://massis.lcs.mit.edu/archives/history/dialing-history It's been pointed out to me that the entry for BOWes Park 209 incorrectly shows that this office served the Twickenham area, which is in southwest London.
	massis.lcs.mit.edu /archives/history/dialing-history (1342 words)

	N.O. Telephone Exchanges
		Originally, New Orleans telephone exchange names were chosen to reflect a specific locality (e.g., GAlvez [Street]) or part of town where the exchange was located (e.g., BYwater).
		In the late 1950s, telephone numbers were expanded to seven digits in order to fit into the long distance direct dialing system then being instituted.
		The use of exchange names was discontinued nationally in the mid-1960s in order to provide a greater number of prefixes.
	nutrias.org /facts/TELEXCH.HTM (138 words)

	Oneida Telephone Exchange History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Oneida Telephone Exchange is a small Independent Telephone Company serving the City of Oneida, Illinois and its rural areas.
		Oneida Telephone remained much the same until the late sixties when the burying of telephone lines in the country began and party lines began to diminish.
		As word of that got around the telephone company was approached by the city of possibly putting in our own cable TV system and burying that cable at the same time.
	www.winco.net /otc/history.htm (1234 words)

	--> TELEPHONE EXCHANGES :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Telephone exchanges of the South Midlands Pages updated 16th August 1999 THAMES VALLEY FM INTERVIEW - On Tuesday the 10th August I was interviewed by Thames Valley FM as a result of them coming across...
		In February of 1957, the newly rebuilt telephone exchanges at Edmond, Damar, and Logan were cut into operation providing eight, four, and one-party dial service to 750 subscribers.
		Manual telephone exchanges With all-manual calling, the customer calls the operator and asks the operator for the number, and provided that the number is in the same central office, the operator...
	www.sanguis-novus.de /19030 (321 words)

	BatesLine: Prefixation
		Can't remember the exchange names for Sand Springs, Sapulpa, Sperry, north Tulsa (425 -- was it LAkeview, JAsper, or something else?), or Jenks.
		The exchange map from the phone book back then is still burned into my brain.
		The first Tulsa exchange without a name, as far as I can recall, was 560, which was used by Cities Service for their headquarters starting in the early '70s.
	www.batesline.com /archives/000501.html (346 words)

	X is for Xchange (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		To indicate an exchange, you abbreviate the exchange name to its first two or three letters and dial those; you could reach that hotel by dialing PENnsylvania-5000, or 736-5000.
		Initially exchanges were abbreviated by their first three letters in many places, a system referred to as 3L-4N (three letters, four numbers).
		Thanks to Robert Crowe and the other folks at the Telephone Exchange Names Project, you can find out what your local exchange was historically, or (if your exchange number is too new to have a historical name) pick a historical exchange name to use.
	www.kith.org /logos/words/upper/X.html (522 words)

	Telephone Exchange Name Project UK
		And at least some of the subscribers in Edgware had an exchange name which matched where they were: the inhabitants of Bromley had to make do with WIDmore and RAVensbourne (both good names suggestive of the area - at least to me) because CROydon had got there first for a code of 270.
		The names are so much more romantic somehow than the numbers we have now.
		The Enfield exchange KEAts was presumably because the poet John Keats attended school in the town.
	ukphreak.blogspot.com (1219 words)

	Nova Scotia Telephone Companies
		The New Cumberland Telephone Company is known to have been carrying on a telephone business in 1905 and 1906 — it appears as "Cumberland Telephone Company" in Winfield's list dated May 1905, and it was involved in a lawsuit in 1906.
		Telephone lines were put through the district and three battery operated telephones were installed.
		The name of the Canaan Mutual Telephone Company appeared in the Halifax Chronicle-Herald on 3 April 2001, and in the Halifax Daily News on 4 April 2001, in the obituary of Borden Frederick Carter, 88, of Canaan, Kings County, former secretary of the company.
	alts.net /ns1625/telephone.html (9547 words)

	Oneida Telephone Exchange Terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Switch: A local telephone company switching system where telephone exchange service customer station loops are terminated for purposes of interconnection to each other and to trunks through electronic services which are used to provide circuit routing and control.
		Calls originated by dialing a local exchange number or a 950-type number using an authorization code, the originating point will be the rate center in which the switched access facilities are located.
		Any Inbound telephone number associated with the Company Inbound Service that has not been placed in actual and substantial use during the first sixty (60) day period after service activation may be redesigned as a spare number in the Company Inbound database by the Company upon written notice to the Customer.
	www.winco.net /otc/terms.htm (10592 words)

	Telephone World - Telephone Related Links
		Telephone Central Offices - Pictures of telephone central office buildings from all across the US (and a few from Canada).
		Telephone Exchange Names - Find out what could have been the telephone exchange name for your telephone prefix.
		Founded in 1911, TelecomPioneers, formerly known as the Telephone Pioneers of America, is comprised of nearly 750,000 current and retired telecommunications employees who have joined together to make their communities better places in which to live and work.
	www.dmine.com /phworld/links.htm (2011 words)

	Letters for digits in UK telephone numbers
		The opportunity was taken to re-organise the exchange codes on a geographic basis.
		This meant that there was consistency in that in a full national number the three digits after the zero always gave the charging information and always (with a few local exceptions) gave the routing information.
		The dialling codes for the non-Director exchanges were written as: zero, two letters with mnemonic significance followed by one, two or three digits.
	www.rhaworth.myby.co.uk /phreak/tenp_uk.htm (604 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		From: elgart@netdepot.com (Ken Elgart) Subject: Re: Recommended "EXchange" Names Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1996 09:23:31 -0400 In the Telecom Archives file 'exchange.names.recommended' Mark J.
		As a follow-up to your post of the list of recommended exchange names (which I tried in vain to track down while I was employed at Western Electric) I thought I'd add some observations from that job and from my student days at the University of Buffalo.
		W and K are two of the radio callsign series assigned to the USA, the others being AA-AL and N. Those last two were almost exclusively military or government until the last 20 years or so.
	massis.lcs.mit.edu /archives/history/exchange.names.comments (215 words)

	Old Telephone Exchange Names - Los Angeles County
		In 1958, due to increased consumer demand for individual telephone numbers, the telephone company began phasing out old exchange names for all numeric telephone numbers or "All Number Calling" (pretty much gone by 1963).
		These old exchange names are remembered in Glenn Miller’s song PEnnsylvania 6-5000, and Elizabeth Taylor’s movie BUtterfield-8.
		Below is a list of numbers for Los Angeles County gleaned from exchange names collected by the Telephone EXchange Name Project and submissions offered by visitors to the Los Angeles Almanac.
	www.laalmanac.com /communications/cm01e.htm (178 words)

	Telephone EXchange Names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Many cities with EXchange names had for decades been using names which are not from this list, and they were not necessarily required to change the names.
		These names were supposed to have been chosen such that pronouncing the name should easily identify the first two significant dialable letters of the word, as well as quoting the two letters themselves wasn't supposed to be confused with other 'like-sounding' letters which were associated with different numbers on the dial.
		If you do not have a historically accurate exchange name to use for your current telephone number, you should choose one from this list.
	ourwebhome.com /TENP/Recommended.html (192 words)

	Ruthven Telephone Exchange Co. eSupport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The process of blocking email from fllisted domain names is nothing new at Ruthven Telephone Exchange Co..
		In the past we have always internally maintained a list of domain names that we would not accept email from because they were sending unsolicited, bulk email to our customers.
		If an individual receives notice that Ruthven Telephone Exchange Co. has fllisted their domain, their mail server administrator will have to contact Ruthven Telephone Exchange Co. directly to resolve the issue.
	support.ruthventel.com /blacklist.shtml (381 words)

	N.Y. Telephone Exchange Names
		Also, since many of these exchanges were given to me by people remembering their old one, there is a small chance for error.
		The exchanges with an "x" in them are probably the most inaccurate.
		However, there are very interesting bits of information and exchange names from other places in the country on the T.E.N. Project site.
	www.eckers.com /pages/exchange.html (413 words)

	National Telephone Exchange, Inc.
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	www.ntenet.com /terms.asp (2632 words)

	Edmonton Public Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		To find a prefix location in a specific area code, click on the area code to go to the search page for that area code.
		Remember the era when telephone exchanges began with two letters, as in the Glenn Miller song "PEnnsylvania 6-500"?
		This web site archives historical telephone exchange names from across North America.
	www.epl.ca /EPLMaster.cfm?id=TELEPHONENUM (170 words)

	The Dubois Telephone Exchange
		Please email Webmaster at Dubois Telephone Exchange the error, thanks.
		Digital Subscriber Loop (DSL) is available in most of the DTE serving areas.
		This site maintained by Bill Guthrie at Dubois Telephone Exchange.
	www.duboistelephone.com /info/DSL.htm (171 words)

	Telephone Exchange Names
		I still remember my parents' old phone number as UNion 9 9097.
		And, no surprise, someone has recorded old exchange names on The Telephone EXchange Name Project.
		They even verify that UNion was used in my home town.
	www.bobcongdon.net /blog/2003/08/telephone-exchange-names.html (51 words)

	Numbering :: Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Number Portability: Collates information on the regional initiatives in place to develop number portability and number pooling in the US.
		The Telephone Exchange Name Project: The historical relationship between North American telephone exchange names and numbers.
		The content of this directory is based on the Open Directory and has been modified by Gourt.com
	business.gourt.com /Telecommunications/Resources/Numbering.html (151 words)

	roamer1.org - Atlanta Area Exchange History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Exchange names that existed in 1947, and where they roughly correspond to now:
		More than likely common Bell names were used.
		The "original" Atlanta metro local calling area wasn't all that big -- it only covered about ten whole counties and portions of several others (mainly because of COs straddling county lines.)
	www.roamer1.org /telecom/atlnexch.html (1266 words)

	Numbering
		Information about the central database for US toll free number management.
		The historical relationship between North American telephone exchange names and numbers.
		Collates information on the regional initiatives in place to develop number portability and number pooling in the US.
	www.business-dir.com /Telecommunications/Resources/Numbering.html (168 words)

	List of Relevant Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Philadelphia Telephone Exchange Names a list of present-day 3-digit phone exchanges and what they used to be called (remember when "382" was "EVergreen 2"?)
		Look up historic sites by state and county.
		Arden Press, an online publisher of books about Philadelphia history.
	uchs.net /links.html (131 words)

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