Telephone History.. Antique Telephone & Collector's Items. TELEPHONE HISTORY PAGESOur History Page is always under construction, but there's a bunch of really interesting stuff here!

Be sure to look at the BECO catalogs we've got below, which are a history lesson in themselves! Click on the hard working guys on the right.. Our site has lots of. Watch Mercy Rule Online Forbes. Most from old telephone trade magazines.

We also. have some technical information for you, and some neat items for. You can click on most of the pictures on this.

If you have pictures that you'd like to. Mike Sandman at mike@sandman. IMPORTANT NOTE: If the text is too small to read easily, you can make it bigger (or smaller) by holding down the CONTROL key, and rolling the wheel on your mouse (while holding CONTROL down). Release the CONTROL key to scroll up and down the page.

This works on any web page with text (not graphics). If you don't have a wheel on your mouse, you can click on VIEW in the menu at the top of your browser, then TEXT SIZE, and then LARGEST/SMALLEST (or INCREASE/DECREASE in Firefox). OLD PHONE ACCESSORIESThis is my favorite section, since it shows how ingenious some of the pioneers of the phone business were! The Beginning of the end of the Bell System..  The Hush- A- Phone was a simple product that slipped over a Candlestick Phone or Telephone Handset and gave the user some privacy (the first noise canceling microphone!). There were no electrical connections, it just slipped onto the phone. It had been advertised and sold in trade magazines for years.

An AT& T lawyer just happened to see one in a shop window on his way to lunch one day, and decided that it was his job to stop the sale of this device since it was being attached to the Phone Company's property. AT& T had previously won many court cases against companies who sold advertising trinkets (premiums) that slipped over or otherwise attached to their phones. These trinkets had phone numbers for the local coal company, funeral parlor and general store, but you couldn't attach those numbers to your phone since the phone wasn't yours. The Hush- A- Phone Decision was a big win over. AT& T in the US Court of Appeals, in 1. It allowed the Hush- A- Phone (and every other similar device) to be stuck to AT& T's phones. The Original. Carter.

Fone. More than a decade. Hush- A- Phone Decision. Tom Carter won a decision against AT& Tthat allowed anybody to connect anything to AT& T's telephone network. AT& T"Protective Coupler."  That was the. Carterfone Decision, in 1. Tom Carter fought the battle with AT& T which led to today's total. US. As a matter of.

PTTs in just about every country in the world (a PTT is the FCC of. US lead of deregulating their telephone network. US citizens saw when they were able to connect. Without that. deregulation, it's possible the Internet would have stayed a network used by the. Phone Company would have surely.

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I mentioned to Helen Carter (Mrs. Tom Carter) that I didn't know how. AT& T, a company who specialized in crushing other. She replied: "A few years before Tom's death. Harry Newton called me and said "Quick Helen..

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Tom's tombstone".. I responded quickly with "Here lies a. Texan". That's the secret of how he did what he did."Helen Carter also said: "Tom's earliest prediction. So many. people just laughed at that."After the Carterfone.

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Decision, up until the FCC started allowing connection of FCC registered equipment in. CPE). From my own experience, these. They often left phone lines dead because they were. The Phone Company didn't care, and didn't.

They. figured eventually the subscriber would get tired of dealing with the problems and go back to renting from them. I guess they were wrong. I have to say that as. Interconnect phone man I made a lot of money going around checking dead line. Probably 9. 5% of the dead line service calls on phone systems are not.

It was that way before the Carterfone Decision, and it's that way. The Carter. Fone itself was a device that patched phone calls into 2- Way Radio equipment. It didn't actually wire. It had an acoustic coupler. If you have an ad for a. Carter. Fone let me know and I'll put it on our page and attribute it to you.- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -Here's a picture of an. Carter. Fone (click on it to see a bigger version): Jon Giberson's original Carter.

Fone thatsits on the credenza in his office. Jon is from Connections, a company specializingin call accounting. The plaque under the glass says: The Original "Carterfone"This original Carterfone, manufactured. Carter Electronics in 1. Use of the Carterfone was. Federal Communications Commission. On June 2. 6, 1. 96.

FCC handed down. the landmark Carterfone Decision. The resolution of  Tom Carter's struggle. Interconnection permitted the creation of a. The historic Carterfone Decision allowed an open. This original Carterfone is one of the.

Carterfone Communications Corporation. Dallas, Texas- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -Here are some more. Carter. Fone (click to see a bigger version): -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudolph Wratten wrote in and said he has a different model. Carter. Fone. He says his is an acoustic coupler with a twist, a bar that both opens the line and dials the number. A standard 5. 00 set is placed in a tray, and a bar goes over the switchhook cradle. The mobile user had a telephone dial that pulsed a tone, this pulsed the bar and thus dialed the number. The radios were half- duplex, this is to say, you could talk or listen, one or the other.

In San Antonio, the. Carter. Fones were marketed by a General Electric radio dealer, Industrial Radio.- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -Here are some scans James Francis. Carter. Fone 1. 96. Second Annual Report (click. The middle page includes a picture of an IMTS typephone. Cadillac.. in 1. 96. Watch Graceland Season 1. The IMTS. phone was similar to the first mobile phone, which was the MTS (Mobile.

Telephone Service), offered by Phone Companies. IMTS was the. "Improved Mobile Telephone Service."  There were also Radio.

Common Carriers (private companies) who offered the same type of service through. FCC). Actually, I think the.