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  • Last large manual telephone exchange?

    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 10 19:33:18 2016
    I know the last manual city was Huntington, Indiana. We still had an operator answer when we picked up the phone to give our 4 digit number to connect us. This changed in the early 60's. I know this because my mom who was a telephone operator was part
    of the transition team. This was about 64 or 65.

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 10 19:37:46 2016
    Oh and Huntington was a city of around 25,000 people

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  • From Thomas Horne@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri May 28 10:50:39 2021
    On Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 10:37:48 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
    Oh and Huntington was a city of around 25,000 people
    The last manual telephone exchange in the United States of America was in Bryant Pond Maine. It was automated in 1983. The owner's hung on to manual service because they were not willing to lay off they're 20 operators. They made the transition to an
    automated exchange when the workload had grown enough to keep the operators employed on a mix of other work.

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