selectedgrub
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If we could see all the "waves" that surround us we would be in the middle of cotton ball.
Very true, very true indeedIf we could see all the "waves" that surround us we would be in the middle of cotton ball.
All BT phones are going digital by 2025 according to the news, they will be converting everyone to fibre eventually.
Not something they make well known, I got the 2 bbu's because of my health supplied free...otherwise ~£100 ea@/they will supply a battery backup for the ont and hub (separate bbu's) on request.
I have this actual phone.
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Apparently these red ones fetch a bit more money than a standard black style.
Someone will know more about why it is so, but the one to nine numbers are reversed on that one compared to most UK dial phones (the zero is in the same place on both).
I remember reading years ago that the 9 was where it is (as per the piccie of the red phone) due to our emergency calls being 999 - it was the shortest time required to let the dial return (or perhaps, 999 was due to the numbers being where they were).Someone will know more about why it is so, but the one to nine numbers are reversed on that one compared to most UK dial phones (the zero is in the same place on both).
I was always under the impression that 999 was chosen because you could dial it during duress or in the dark without over dialing the number?When I was in the Scouts back in the very early sixties we had a tour of the local telephone exchange all rotating machinery and other interesting stuff. The chap taking us round reckoned that 999 was chosen for the Emergency number rather than 111 was that a branch tapping on a line could generate a spurious emergency call.![]()
With great regret I have to suppress the desire to make the obvious comment re Virgins knocking on your door , or mine for that matter.We recently got both BT (up on the poles) and Virgin (holes in the ground) within the space of about a month. Only Virgin have been knocking on the door though.
I believe that the Emergency number was chosen to be 999 because a large number of pulses was more likely to be successfully transmitted over the mechanical/analogue/relay system ( rather than, for example, 111 ).
The placing of the zero next to the chrome "stop" was so that you could use two fingers, one in the zero and one in the 9, to locate the 9 in the dark.