Telephone calls for all
The ideal telephone service, one supposes, would make it possible to pick up any telephone in the world, dial the number for any other telephone and, having been instantly connected, talk for as long as one liked.
No one is yet planning for this ideal but there are three developments in telephony which are bringing it nearer. The first facilities by which a British subscriber can dial their own trunk calls – direct calls without the need to be directed via an operator between cities with different area codes – are scheduled for 1959. The first…
