File image An example of the typical desk or table telephone in the 1940s-50s pre-dial era. Users just picked up the receiver and listened for an operator, who asked for the number you were calling ...

There was a time when dialing a friend in Chicago didn't require an area code, but it did require knowing your friend's neighborhood. Follow our reporter's dive into the history of local telephone ...

Born in 1949, I grew up with dial telephones and party lines. In addition, as I understand it, the first two numbers of telephone numbers related to letters of the name assigned to the telephone ...

The 570 area code will run out of phone numbers in about three years, and Portland and Upper Mount Bethel Township could get new area codes, the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission said today. A ...

The Oklahoma Corporation Commission on Wednesday approved a second telephone area code for the area using the 405 prefix in central Oklahoma. Called an “overlay,” the plan will add a yet-to-be ...

BT’s Openreach infrastructure division, which will soon escape from the BT mothership with some 32,000 employees under its twisted copper arms and form a separate company, has released a 360-degree ...