- American Telephone & Telegraph
| parent = [[Bell System|American Bell]] (1885-1899)<br>[[AT&T|AT&T, Inc.]] (2005-present)
... agencies. During its long history, AT&T was at times the world's largest [[telephone]] company, the world's largest [[cable television]] operator, and a regula ...
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- New York Telephone
| products = [[Plain old telephone service|POTS]], [[DSL]], [[FiOS]] ([[FTTP]])
| parent = '''[[American Telephone and Telegraph Company|AT&T]]''' (1896-1983)<br>
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- AT&T
|products = [[Wireless]]<br>[[Telephone]]<br>[[Internet]]<br>[[Television]]
... to the more iconic AT&T moniker and the '''T''' stock-trading symbol (for "telephone").
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- Bell System
... ions with each other. The telephone system had a near-monopoly on the U.S. telephone market until its [[Divestment|divestiture]] in 1984.<ref>{{cite web | url ...
... e local Bell System companies responsible for local phone service. Member telephone companies paid a fixed fraction of their revenues as a license fee to [[Be ...
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- AT&T
|products = [[Wireless]]<br>[[Telephone]]<br>[[Internet]]<br>[[Television]]
... to the more iconic AT&T moniker and the '''T''' stock-trading symbol (for "telephone").
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- Public switched telephone network
... ely [[digital]], and now includes [[mobile phone|mobile]] as well as fixed telephones.
... [ITU-T]], and uses [[E.163]]/[[E.164]] addresses (more commonly known as [[telephone number]]s) for addressing.
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- 9-1-1
{{otheruses4|the emergency telephone number||911 (disambiguation)}}
... nced "nine-one-one") is the [[emergency telephone number]] for the [[North American Numbering Plan]] (NANP). It is one of eight [[N11 code]]s. In some jurisd ...
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- Telephone numbers in the Americas
===North American Numbering Plan===
{{Main|North American Numbering Plan}}
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- Telephone
... [[Image:ATTtelephone-large.jpg|thumb|right|Touch Tone single line business telephone with message waiting light.]]
... ory)|electric signals]] over a complex [[public switched telephone network|telephone network]] which allows almost any phone user to communicate with almost an ...
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- Local exchange carrier
... (LEC) is a [[regulatory]] term in [[telecommunication]]s for the '''local telephone company.'''
... n regulated [[monopoly]] carrier [[American Telephone & Telegraph]]. Local telephone companies at the time of the divestiture are also known as [[Incumbent Loc ...
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- Advanced American Telephones
industry = [[Telephone|Customer Premises Equipment]]|
products = [[AT&T]] branded telephones|
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- Class 5 telephone switches
... , refers to a [[telephone switch]] or exchange located at the [[ILEC|local telephone company's]] central office, directly serving [[subscriber]]s. Class 5 swi ...
== Telephone switch hierarchy ==
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- Federal telephone excise tax
... lities or services" on which the tax is imposed (i.e., is collected by the telephone company, which files a quarterly Form 720 excise return and forwards the t ...
... the telephone excise tax has been in place continuously since the Spanish-American War, it has actually been repealed and reinstated several times, usually i ...
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- Qwest Corporation
:''This article refers to the local telephone operating company. For the holding company, see [[Qwest]].''
parent = [[American Telephone & Telegraph|AT&T]] (1911-1983)<br>U S WEST (1984-2000)<br>[[Qwest]] (2000- ...
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- Invention of the telephone
... peaking into Telephone.jpg|thumb|Bell speaking into prototype model of the telephone]]
... transmitters and receivers. However, the history of the invention of the [[telephone]] is a confusing mass of claims and counterclaims, further worsened by law ...
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- Timeline of the telephone
... ne of the telephone''' that covers important dates in the [[history of the telephone]].
... nnocenzo Manzetti]] first mooted the idea of a “speaking telegraph” ([[telephone]]).
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- BellSouth
| products = [[Telephone]], [[Internet]], [[Television]]
... [American Telephone & Telegraph Company]] to divest itself of its regional telephone companies on [[January 1]], [[1984]].
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- Telephone exchange
... |A [[telephone operator]] manually connecting calls with patch cables at a telephone switchboard.]]
... s the physical building used to house [[inside plant]] equipment including telephone switches, which make phone calls "work" in the sense of making connections ...
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- Rotary dial
... .jpg|right|thumb|A [[Germany|German]] Fe TAp 615, a widespread rotary dial telephone of the 1960s to the 1980s]]
The '''rotary dial''' is a device mounted on or in a [[telephone]] or [[telephone switchboard|switchboard]] that is designed to send interrupted electrical ...
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- Time-space (de)compression
“Technological innovations including the telephone, wireless telegraph, x-ray, cinema, bicycle, automobile, and air-plane est ...
... gy and topography as ours, is completely changed because they have not got telephones or televisions and they do not know what is going on in the rest of the w ...
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