During a study of evolving telephone designs for our new book, my coauthor Russell A. Flinchum and I came across two of Pratt’s distinguished alumni who had connections to the Bell Telephone System.

THE telephone network is the nervous system of our civilization, carrying messages of demand and direction, of pain and pleasure, to collective enterprises and to individuals alike. The telephone ...

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Subject: The firm says it has a $240-million cell-phone deal with the Taliban. Although the U.S. State Department can”t confirm it and telephone equipment manufacturers say they know nothing about it, ...

The United States and Cuba have re-established a direct telephone link, the Cuban state telecommunications company said, in the latest step toward normalising ties between the one-time Cold War foes.

You’ve probably heard about ‘fibre’ and ‘ADSL’ but what do these terms really mean? Same thing, right? Er, not quite. ADSL stands for asymmetrical digital subscriber line. In a nutshell, it’s a ...

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