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reible wrote:If you are really interested in the phone number system go here and read all about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Ame ... ering_Plan

Ed

Wikipedia is a bit off on their dates of phone system updates. The 40s and 50s? No way!

I was in Judith Gap MT. In 1960. Actually 20 miles East of the town. The folks there were trilled because they were going to get telephones - the first for them! WHEATLAND COUNTY IS in central Mt.

charlese wrote:

reible wrote:If you are really interested in the phone number system go here and read all about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Ame ... ering_Plan

Ed

Wikipedia is a bit off on their dates of phone system updates. The 40s and 50s? No way!

I was in Judith Gap MT. In 1960. Actually 20 miles East of the town. The folks there were trilled because they were going to get telephones - the first for them! WHEATLAND COUNTY IS in central Mt.

It has been a while since I read that article but I suspect they are quoting when the first upgrades came. For sure in the metropolitan areas. Those upgrades came a lot later in the hinter lands. Montana is not exactly a hub of population now and certainly not then. Judith Gap is certainly out there and I love that. That is why I live on the end (almost) of a dead end road with 2 acres. Do they even have cell phone coverage 20 miles from town today?

Just kidding Charlese, but I hope you get the point.

jsburger wrote: Do they even have cell phone coverage 20 miles from town today?

I do not know about Judith Gap but my mother in law does not have cell phone coverage and she lives in Geraldine.

And here I thought the Hope and Change President in is first year if elected, promised to have cell and internet coverage for all in rural areas. I guess that he was a bit short on that promise. But there is still Hope.

ERLover wrote:And here I thought the Hope and Change President in is first year if elected, promised to have cell and internet coverage for all in rural areas. I guess that he was a bit short on that promise. But there is still Hope.

Fear not, we have the same thing in apple at cha. AT&T wants to pull the plug on land lines there.

JPG wrote:

ERLover wrote:And here I thought the Hope and Change President in is first year if elected, promised to have cell and internet coverage for all in rural areas. I guess that he was a bit short on that promise. But there is still Hope.

Fear not, we have the same thing in apple at cha. AT&T wants to pull the plug on land lines there.

Sure they do! When that happens, the cost of cellular goes up.

I have been reading about areas ATT after some date later in the decade will not be doing line replacements, do to high cell phone users and loss of land line customers. I guess if we are still around or/and our grand children can talk about that here on this really gone astray thread.

ERLover wrote:I have been reading about areas ATT after some date later in the decade will not be doing line replacements, do to high cell phone users and loss of land line customers. I guess if we are still around or/and our grand children can talk about that here on this really gone astray thread.

I forgot to mention, while are great grand kids are using our ERS, greenies, graylings, ect, and pick up this thread and say, what is a Land Line, they will still getting parts from the MS for those machines!!!!!

I am not saying anything one way or the other but haw many of you still have a cathode ray TV?

jsburger wrote:I am not saying anything one way or the other but haw many of you still have a cathode ray TV?

ME, and a couple of computer monitors as well.

Back to the old days - RF CONVERTER(etc).

BTW the concern re cell phones(no land lines) has to do with folks living up in the hollers. Cell phones have similar problem as GPS. That is one place where cable phone service actually makes sense - land lines again!