MODERN IDENTIFICATION FOR TOWER CITY PHONES
Effective Monday at 12:01 a.m., new telephone equipment will be placed in service for Tower City customers, which will automatically identify telephone numbers, according to an announcement made by Al Mauser, area manager for Commonwealth Telephone Company.
The new equipment is the most modern available today and is being provided to meet the needs of customers for fast, dependable service.
Automatic Number Identification (ANI) will enable customers with one and two-party service to dial station-to-station calls dierectly to distant points without any form of operator assistance… it’s all done automatically. Those customers on four and multi-party lines must still pass their number to the operator as has been done in the past.
Although highly complex in design and construction, the equipment is relatively simple in the way it operates. A one or two-party customer dials his long distance number, and then there is a pause while the equipment prepares to transmit the call. That is all there is to it. The customer’s number is automatically identified and information for billing is done mechanically.
“Automatic Number Identification,” Mauser concluded, is another in the latest steps among many amazing developments in the fast-moving technology of communications.”
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From the West Schuylkill Herald, May 17, 1973, obtained through Newspapers.com.
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