Telefonist.at Website Review

On 01.04.1881, the first ever telephone system was built in Friedrichstras*e 6 in Austria. 154 participants use this system when it was first put into operation. The introduction of this intercom came from Johann Philipp Reis and Alexander Graham Bell. The telephoning functioned like a handover which Otto Schäffler devised. If everything ran properly it worked out in something like that, the mediation of all conversations happened through so-called mediation ladies this plugged the respective plug into the right metal plug where the desired party on the other line was. Soon after, the handsets were equipped with crank inductive. This allowed the participants to signalize that they needed an operator, the crank inductors also reported the end of a call. In December 1881 a fire broke out in the Ringtheater Wien. The theater had a telephone line, but this could not be used because the police did not have a connection. After this incident, however, took care of all public locations for a connection. In 1882 all people had a public intercom available. Every user needed a calling card. The talk time was 5 minutes. The cancellation of this speech card was done by punching or In 1903, there were even the first payphone machines. In 1906, a uniform fee was introduced. This means each participant had a certain number of calls free. If these were exceeded, the participant was reclas*ified. That's why there were even two different models, payphone machines that had 1200 calls free to models with 12000 calls. On April 8, 1948, there was a nationwide, unified dialing system. In 1951, the very first office in Vienna was equipped with this system. Then two years later, other offices followed.