• Touch Tone Phones Freed Callers From All That Rotary Dialing

  • Nov 18 2024
  • Length: 3 mins
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Touch Tone Phones Freed Callers From All That Rotary Dialing

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  • Today in 1963, AT&T launched the first commercial telephone service where customers could use touch-tone devices instead of rotary dial. It started with just two communities in western Pennsylvania, but of course it spread, way way beyond that. Plus: a couple in southern Australia comes home to find a koala sitting on their floor.

    50 years ago, touch-tone phones began a communication revolution (TribLive)

    ‘Only in Australia’: Couple comes home to find koala in bed (CNN)

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