They’re pulling the plug on California’s last manual telephone switchboard. A computer was being installed this week to replace Kerman Telephone’s four manual units. Rena McDonald of the California ...

Section of a CB1 manual telephone exchange switchboard with positions for three operators, unknown maker, British, 1925-1960. In use at Enfield Telephone Exchange 22 July 1925 to 5 October 1960 ...

Network Neutrality debates are fundamentally about switching – whether network switches can treat some packets differently from others. In this piece, I look back 100 years to the telephone ...

The last woman in the country to put through a telephone call via manual switchboard exchange has retired from An Post more than three decades later. Florence Bugler was the postmistress in ...