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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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ice itself. Perhaps the dial operators posi-tions can handle a little more traffic.In that case, lines can be connectedfor manual originating serxice, whilecalls to those subscribers will be com-pleted through the dial equipment. Most offices are short on terminalnumbers. How can every numberwork all the time? .\ssign a new cus-tomer to an\ disconnected number as 304 Bell Telephone Magazine WINTER soon as it is released. The new sub- Means have been devised for mak- scriber will get some calls intended ing a single dial number terminal do for the old one. But thats muchbetter than no service at all. At the same time, the terminalsused for testing purposes are being cutto the barest minimum, and the sameis done with the numbers used forcompany business. double duty, serving to reach twocustomers on the same party line. As new equipment is produced, theuse of every frame and switch isplanned with the utmost care. Wayshave been found to drop out 15 per-cent of the equipment in new cross-
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Through an ingenious re-arrangement, this bank ot step-by-step dial central officeswitches is temporarily serving twice as many subscribers as it was designed to take care ot Has a block of numbers been as-signed for coin box growth? Cut itto the minimum and use the numbersthus released for regular service.Likewise, go ahead and use numbersthat have been saved for growth inbusiness P.B.X. groups. bar offices temporarily by cutting cor-ners and eliminating every frame notimmediately essential to service. Theprovision of equipment for growth inservice after cutover has been reducedto the bare minimum needed to carryon until the next addition can be 1945-^4^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ 6>j/^wj First Order oj Business 305 rushed in. A few frames here, a fewswitches there, may not sound large;but if you can defer them and stillgive service in a hundred jobs, itmeans that perhaps ten new jobs,otherwise impossible, can be squeezedin. Typical ground rules for the engi-neer are: Since party service cau yet

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