. Bell telephone magazine . edicated to providingthis type of intelligence. Altogether,570,000 miles of communications cir-cuits are provided by the telephoneindustry and make up the heart andnerves of air transportation in theUnited States. Most of this has taken place withinthe last ten years. Commercial airlines are generally less than 25 yearsold. Who can tell what new type ofcommunication need will arise In thenext 25 years? Planners need notknow exactly what these needs will be, but the plans for them can be based onthe technical facilities now availableand those expected to be available
. Bell telephone magazine . edicated to providingthis type of intelligence. Altogether,570,000 miles of communications cir-cuits are provided by the telephoneindustry and make up the heart andnerves of air transportation in theUnited States. Most of this has taken place withinthe last ten years. Commercial airlines are generally less than 25 yearsold. Who can tell what new type ofcommunication need will arise In thenext 25 years? Planners need notknow exactly what these needs will be, but the plans for them can be based onthe technical facilities now availableand those expected to be available inthe few years ahead. By keeping theplans flexible and fluid, changes can bemade as quickly as the future com-munication needs seem to form a defi-nite image. What are some of the questionsabout the future that the telephoneplanners will try to answer? Here are a few. When the teen-agers of today be-come heads of their own households,how many calls will they make andhow long will they talk? When telephone customers of the. Customer dialing of long distance calls requires automatic equipment to time each call^ compute the charge, and record other details necessary Jor billing. The details of many calls are first recorded electrically on a single tape, which is then unscrambled by this computer, trayjscribtng the data iji proper sequence n)i other tapes
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