If you came of age in the 1990s, you’ll remember the unmistakable auditory handshake of an analog modem negotiating its connection via the plain old telephone system. That cacophony of screeches and ...

It’s a common enough Hollywood trope that we’ve all probably seen it: the general, chest bespangled with medals and ribbons, gazes at a big screen swarming with the phosphor traces of incoming ICBMs, ...

A dial plan allows people to call each other by dialing a number on the telephone. Dial plans include access codes, area codes, and specialized codes. The North American Public Switched Telephone ...

The story of the transition from the telephone to the pervasive, broadband Internet as the primary means of electronic communication is one of conflict. Citizens eagerly explore the horizons that the ...

Walk into any ordinary-looking building marked ‘Telephone Exchange’, and you’ll see how the world talks. Inside, the walls are crammed with rows of small plastic blocks. On one side, cables go in ...

Peter Amstein, a volunteer who serves as president of the Connections Museum board, says early phone technology shaped his IT career. (L. Tremaine) As Peter Amstein squeezes through a warren of ...

As enterprise telephone system manufacturers decide that their research and development efforts are going to be exclusively focused on VoIP, TDM systems will go the way of the dinosaur. The effect on ...

BRUNSWICK, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LiveOak Fiber, a regional service provider building and operating a world-class broadband network, announces today that the company has completed the acquisition of ...

As it looks to keep on track with its plans to evolve its national communications network by switching off the legacy Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) in December 2025, BT’s broadband ...

UPDATE: The Joe Daviess County Sheriff's Office would like to let the public know that our administrative lines and 911 system have been restored. This also includes the office's ability to answer ...