Organizations should identify and prioritize systems—especially life-safety components like fire alarms—for immediate ...

The operator is going off the hook for millions of customers. Starting in January, AT&T customers with digital landlines won’t be able to dial 411 or 0 to reach an operator or get directory ...

A man was booked into the Madison County Jail on Saturday for pretending to be an officer and defrauding over $7,000 through ...

The Vancouver Barracks received Clark County’s first telephone in October 1878, connecting the arsenal to headquarters. Soon two more phones were installed. In 1879, soldiers strung the first telephon ...

These compact, push-button phones had translucent plastic cases so callers could see every component. They lit up in neon colors when the phone rang. And for a period in the 1980s and 1990s, they were ...

In the early 1920s, AT&T, the telephone monopoly that grew out of Alexander Graham Bell’s Bell Telephone, was America’s largest employer, and specifically employed many women as operators, who ...

Bell Invents The Telephone The story of the telephone, it could be said, is really a story about theater — or, better, about the comedy of humans trying to communicate through machines.