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Comment on What are the advantages of VOIP over a normal home telephone system? by joebrochin

joebrochin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:01:50 +0000

This article should give a quick overview of what VoIP is:”>

and this one should explain some of the BASIC advantages and disadvantages of VoIP :

Comment on What are the advantages of VOIP over a normal home telephone system? by joe r

joe r — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:29:23 +0000

a VoIP phone would need to be programmed with whatever SIP provider’s service that you want to use… it would also connect to a port on your router, not to a traditional telephone jack…

roadrunner is a cable provider, so basicllay with out getting too technical about it – there telephone service is a form of VoIP- but the modem/phone adapter converts the digital signal to analog, so that you can use a standard telephone…

I would recommend just getting a normal DECT phone, or go one better, and get a phone that has bluetooth and can sync with your cell – this way when you are home, you can keep your cell on the charger, and answer your cell phone thru your home phone…

if you decide in the future to get VoIP phone service, you can just get an ATA to convert the VoIP signal to a standard analog telephone signal…

Comment on Which town or city was the first to have a fully functioning telephone system? And what was its starting date? by ZoneRider

ZoneRider — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:23:38 +0000

1876 The first telephone was demonstrated by Alexander Graham Bell in Boston.
The first town or city was Boston and expanded to Somerville. Here is an excerpt that may be of help:

Service Lines and Switchboards

In 1877, construction of the first regular telephone line from Boston to Somerville, Massachusetts was completed. By the end of 1880, there were 47,900 telephones in the United States. The following year telephone service between Boston and Providence had been established. Service between New York and Chicago started in 1892, and between New York and Boston in 1894. Transcontinental service by overhead wire was not inaugurated until 1915. The first switchboard was set up in Boston in 1877. On January 17, 1882, Leroy Firman received the first patent for a telephone switchboard.

Exchanges and Rotary Dialing

The first regular telephone exchange was established in New Haven in 1878. Early telephones were leased in pairs to subscribers. The subscriber was required to put up his own line to connect with another. In 1889, Almon B. Strowger a Kansas City undertaker, invented a switch that could connect one line to any of 100 lines by using relays and sliders. This switch became known as “The Strowger Switch” and was still in use in some telephone offices well over 100 years later. Almon Strowger was issued a patent on March 11, 1891 for the first automatic telephone exchange.

The first exchange using the Strowger switch was opened in La Porte, Indiana in 1892 and initially subscribers had a button on their telephone to produce the required number of pulses by tapping. An associate of Strowgers’ invented the rotary dial in 1896 which replaced the button. In 1943, Philadelphia was the last major area to give up dual service (rotary and button).

I hope this helps.

Comment on Technical question: How do I get an intelligent 900 telephone number system ? by joe r

joe r — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:29:20 +0000

you wouldnt be the supplier of the service.. .the phone company would be, and they would be splitting the money with the person providing the information service on that 900 number.

Comment on i am looking for a telephone system that can respone to a user pressing a button on the phone? by Morris

Morris — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:54:00 +0000

is this what your looking for???

Comment on i am looking for a telephone system that can respone to a user pressing a button on the phone? by ek 5

ek 5 — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:03:20 +0000

You probably want an Automatic Call Distributor (ACD) it can be programmed to do something similar to what you want.

Comment on Are there any In-band signaling systems still in use in all of America? by wa2aqq

wa2aqq — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:01:58 +0000

There are no crossbar or step by step switches left however there are many in band signaling trunks left particularly from small exchanges such as DMS 10s or even DMS 100s These are general from smaller companies that connect to long distance carriers via a tandem exchange owned usually by a baby Bell

Bob who is a telecommunications engineer

Comment on I would like to know if my telephone system is serial or parallel? by TV guy

TV guy — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:33:29 +0000

There is no such a thing as a serial phone system.
For all phones to work, on a single line, they must be connected in parallel.

Comment on Can Singapore telephone system be used in UK? by ZCT

ZCT — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:16:08 +0000

Very unlikely.

The UK had a very old fashioned system under the GPO which was a government run phone company. In the 1980s the service was sold to BT. But the odd of it working just the same as Singapore is slim to none.

Comment on Where can I sell used business telephone systems equipment? by Biz Guru

Biz Guru — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:39:32 +0000

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