Bell telephone magazine (1922) (14755136065)

Identifier: belltelephonemag00vol2930amerrich (find matches)

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.)

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in a single telephone area.The value and usefulness of servicewere increased immensely under theplan, which permitted a saving onmany telephone bills and providedtaster calling by establishing directdialing between city and suburbs. The history of this tremendouschange in a telephone system goesback approximately twenty years and is intertwined with a social evolutionwhich has altered the character ofthis great metropolitan area. For many years the population ofNew York City has been spilling intothe neighboring localities, with muchof the flow going to the adjoiningcounties of Westchester on the northand Nassau on the east. As the sub-urban communities developed, townsand villages grew closer and theirboundaries, in many cases, becamemere lines on maps rather than eco-nomic or geographic separations.Better roads, bus routes, private au-tomobiles, shopping centers, all drewthem together. This new communityof interest was reflected in sharp in- Metropolitan Service for Suburbanites 4i

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Communication needs of post-war suburban residential developments such as this aremet through the introduction of Metropolitan Area service creases in the volume of toll callingand in many requests for broader lo-cal telephone calling areas. Extended Area Service Heeding the desires of thousandsof suburban users, the New YorkTelephone Company in 1936 intro-duced an optional service—extended-area. Under this arrangement, thecustomer, at a somewhat highermonthly rental, could obtain a largertoll-free calling area. For someyears extended-area service met therequirements of suburbanites whosought wider primary calling areas.However, it was obvious that it wasnot a complete solution, for no mat-ter how close suburban communitieswere drawn together by local devel-opment, they were tied as stronglyto the city as they were to one an- other. The links of employment,friendships, business and professionalacquaintanceships and amusement re-mained strong, and telephone peo-ple foresaw the day wh

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