. Bell telephone magazine . ed by Keystone, and this, and normal disconnections in theused by more than 100 large sub- year before the final cut-over, whenscribers, most of them financial no new Keystone subscribers werehouses. This was a special develop- added, the number of Keystone tele-ment using large amounts of lamp phones in service dropped fromand key equipment and private lines. 45,300, at the time Bell took title to I945~46 D««/ Telephone Service Ends in Philadelphia 317 the system, to approximately 22,400on last September 17. In summing up after the unifica-tion program had been com
. Bell telephone magazine . ed by Keystone, and this, and normal disconnections in theused by more than 100 large sub- year before the final cut-over, whenscribers, most of them financial no new Keystone subscribers werehouses. This was a special develop- added, the number of Keystone tele-ment using large amounts of lamp phones in service dropped fromand key equipment and private lines. 45,300, at the time Bell took title to I945~46 D««/ Telephone Service Ends in Philadelphia 317 the system, to approximately 22,400on last September 17. In summing up after the unifica-tion program had been completed inPennsylvania, it was found that5,200 service orders had been issued,resulting in a net increase of approxi-mately 5,000 Bell lines and 12,000 of the Pennsylvania Company, andfrom the Keystone Division, to assistin the program, and they workedlong hours of overtime to completethe tremendous installation were assisted by Western Elec-tric installers, who handled the addi-tional central office equipment and. For part of its 60 miles, the old Camden &: Atlantic open-wire toll line ran throughswamps accessible only to men equipped with rubber boots telephones. Fifty-eight dial PBXshad required modification or replace-ment and 412 new switchboards hadbeen installed. Installation Problems A TOTAL of 164 people were re-cruited from all over the territory the work on the larger dial regular forces in the Accountingand Directory Departments also per-formed a sizable job in handling thenecessary changes in billing and list-ing records. Because of the large number ofchanges in the PBX equipment, it 3i8 Bell Telephone Magazine WINTER was necessary for the Traffic Depart- erators the day of the consolidation,ment to conduct an extensive training For the comparatively few indi-program for PBX operators. All vidual and party-line customers whooperators affected were visited by had no duplicating Bell service, it wasBell traffic representatives, and were necessary t
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