#Telecom

[humanoidhistory]

The first mobile phone call was made on this day in 1973. Martin Cooper, using a prototype of the Motorola DynaTAC, placed a call from the streets of New York to Bell Labs in New Jersey. The device was 9 inches tall, had a talk-time of 35 minutes, and took 10 hours to recharge.

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fight, little wolf, fight‼️‼️

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cool photos i took the other day

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[oldshowbiz]

telecom

[newsatsix1986]

News At Six 1986 Visits The Lincoln - Part Three

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A couple of weeks before I visited The Lincoln, I made the lovely discovery that the pub didn’t only feature in The Newsreader’s S01E04 - rather, it made an appearance in S01E06 too!

You might remember a scene of Rob Rickards ringing Noelene towards the end of Meltdown, asking her if she would like to join him for a drink after work. I thought the colour of the wall looked familiar, and so I compared it to an image of The Lincoln I found on Google. Turns out, my theory was right! This scene was filmed here too!

It was the perfect timing to discover this as I was able to print out the unit still from Sarah Enticknap’s website to take with me to Melbourne. Like the others I’ve shared, I was also able to insert this photo into its actual location, and with an employee’s laptop on the bench top, it’s a stark comparison that we have come a long way since 1986. The biggest piece of technology in this scene was the orange Telecom pay phone. The presence of this technological relic made my dad smile. He started working for Telecom in 1987, and we have many pieces of his Telecom tools and appliances at our place; such as a toolbox.

In an Emsolation Podcast episode from 2021 (‘We Is Shook’), Michael Lucas shared with listeners that Rob starting his phone call to Noelene again in this scene, this time as himself rather than pretending to be a viewer called Daniel Davidson, was an addition to the script by Stephen Peacocke. It was the sweetest addition; it was very Rob-like and it sure made Noelene smile!

How lovely did it feel to really be in the spot that Rob and Stephen sat in 39 and 4 years ago, respectively. I couldn’t help but look over my shoulder as I was enjoying my meal, wondering if Rob might still be there today 😉 That being said, Mum and I caught up with Stephen the next day at the Season Three ACMI premiere, so Rob’s physical form was truly in Melbourne after all!

A massive thank you to The Lincoln once again for accomodating this Newsreader dream of mine! If you’re in Melbourne, make sure you pop in and see the place for yourself, and enjoy a cool drink whilst immersing yourself in Newsreader history ❤️

[humanoidhistory]

Telecommunications in Greece, 1970-1979.

(OTE Museum of Telecommunications)

[marionetteangie]

Hello people of tumblr!! ☺️

I run an archive known as the World Chorus Archive that I’ve worked on for around 4-5 years (since I began finding my images etc during early 2020)

We are now on my 30th Archive post, so if any of you remember this defunct Disneyland Paris attraction or want to support it, please feel free to look at the archive. And if you remember this and have any photos or videos you’d like to share of your own, please do so through the contacts provided on one of the pages!

Something to note is that since I’ve worked on this for many years, I don’t have links to the original place many of these images or videos were posted. I have specified I only use what’s public or sent to me directly, and I have got a YT playlist and Flickr page for the purpose of making finding original images easier. Okay, hope you all enjoy!

[hayleylovesjessica]

Ahead of the trip to London that my partner and I are taking at the end of the month, I popped into our local AT&T store to make sure that we'd be able to use our phones and GPS over there. The young woman I talked to said that we should. I hope she's right. In particular, with some of the places in London and outside of London (i.e., Maidenhead) that we're going to, the GPS is pretty important. Also, to make sure that we can charge our phones so that, ya know, they actually work, I ordered a universal AC/DC adapter. It should arrive on Tuesday.

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[soon-palestine]

While most telecom networks bury their cables 60cm (about 2ft) underground, PalTel buries its cables up to 8 metres (26ft)  deep. In case the Israelis cut off electricity, its data centres in Gaza also have three layers of redundancy: generators, solar panels and batteries. The company has also developed emergency protocols to direct workers remotely from the occupied West Bank, and if severed communications make this impossible, Gazan staff are empowered to act autonomously. Despite all the redundancies and preparations, the sheer scale of bombings these past weeks has still crippled the network. About 70 percent of the mobile network has been taken offline. Solar panels have been rendered mostly useless either by being destroyed in attacks or covered in dust and debris. The relentless nature of the conflict is also weighing on staff, who are dogged by danger from their house to the field. Rabih*, a fibre optics technician, was called to repair a cable just metres from the border on October 15. Prior to going, he had to give an exhaustive list of the repair team’s names, the colour of their cars and registration numbers to the Israelis, because “a mistake could be deadly”. As Rabih and his team laboured for two hours to fix the cable, the buzz of a drone above him and the sounds of shelling intermingled with the sound of their excavator. “Any wrong move could mean being targeted. I cannot explain to my wife and kids why I do that or why I volunteer to go out during the war. My company doesn’t oblige me, but if someone can do it, it has to be me,” he said. No matter how many metres deep they dig or the number of solar panels they install, Gaza’s connections to the outside world ultimately relies on the Israelis.

The cables that connect Gaza to the outside world run through Israel, and the country on at least two occasions has deliberately cut off the strip’s international communications. “It’s clear for us that it was cut off by a decision. What proves this is that we didn’t do anything to get it back,” Melhem said. Israel also controls fuel to Gaza, allowing a small trickle into Gaza on Friday after weeks of pressure from the United States. Described as a “drop in the bucket” by humanitarian groups, Israel announced that 120,000 litres (31,700 gallons) of fuel would be allowed into the territory every two days for use by hospitals, bakeries and other essential services. PalTel will also be given 20,000 litres (5,283 gallons) of fuel every two days for its generators. On Thursday, the company had announced it would go into a full telecoms blackout because its fuel reserves were exhausted for the first time during the current war. According to Mamoon Fares, the corporate support director at PalTel, the 20,000 litres provided “should be enough to operate a good part of the network”. However, Gaza’s telecoms network will still be at the mercy of Israel should it decide to cut off fuel deliveries or network services that run through its territory. Without the ability to communicate, the already dismal situation in Gaza would only further deteriorate. “No ambulances, no emergency services, no civil defence or humanitarian organisations can work without telecommunications,” Melhem said. * Names have been changed to protect the individuals’ safety.

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