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 ...

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 ...

Read about Openreach reminds networks about ban on lithium batteries in telephone exchanges. Broadband news from the longest ...

While rarely seen by users, the technology behind telephone exchanges is actually quite interesting. In the first hundred or so years of their existence they evolved from manually-operated ...

BT sold its telephone exchanges and other real estate in 2001 for £2.3bn (around £4.45 billion/$5.27bn today, adjusting for inflation) to Telereal, a joint venture by Land Securities Trillium and ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...