Time is soon beeing called on telephone exchanges (aka Central Offices) all over the world, but these oddities are an important piece of the data center industry's history. Built to serve the original ...

Openreach has released a 360-degree video of a modern and surprisingly tidy exchange. None of this is surprising. COs are almost always spotless enough to eat on any surface, and the wire routing ...

DULUTH — It’s been a telephone exchange, a teen concert venue, a bomb shelter and a space for squatters. Now the old Northwestern Bell telephone exchange building in the Endion neighborhood is about ...

The first of 4,600 telephone exchanges earmarked for closure across the UK has been decommissioned. Broadband network Openreach, part of BT Group, has shut The Deddington Exchange in Oxfordshire as ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – In today’s world of cellphones, stored phone numbers and automatic dialing, we don’t need to remember anybody’s phone number. But back in the day of rotary-dial and push-button ...

UK telco BT and its infrastructure unit Openreach are closing and exiting thousands of telephone exchanges (aka Central Offices) as part of efforts to shut down the group's copper network. DCD takes a ...

A large hacker camp such as EMF 2024 always brings unexpected delights, and one of those could be found in the Null Sector cyberpunk zone: a fully functional Strowger mechanical telephone exchange.

Openreach has announced that it has decommissioned Deddington telephone exchange from service in Oxfordshire, as the first of 4,600 telephone exchanges across the UK which are earmarked for closure.

Thanks to various improvements in telephone technology, we have almost instant communication with not only our neighbors but also others throughout the world. But consider the telephone system of the ...

Sickness and death stalk firefighters who put out a massive blaze in 1975 that destroyed the New York Telephone Exchange in the East Village. “I have leukemia. Everybody got something,” said retired ...

NITEL's telephone exchanges across the country are rotting away because of neglect, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has found. Investigations by NAN correspondents reveal that many of the exchanges ...