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On June 1, 1880, telephone exchange service was introduced in Bangor. The National Bell Telephone Company of the State of Maine with Charles S. Pearl as Manager established its offices in the old library building on State Street on the site where the Bangor Savings Bank is now located.
Although 46 subscribers had been furnished with telephone service prior to this, such service only provided a single connection with one of the other subscribers. Telephone poles were not considered necessary to this type service -- instead, connections were made to customer's premises by means of wires strung from house to house with the consent of the respective owners.
Publication Date
1954
Publisher
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
City
Bangor, Maine
Keywords
Bangor Maine, telephone history, telephone history of Bangor Maine
Recommended Citation
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, "The Story of the Telephone in Bangor" (1954). Books and Publications. 201.
https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/201
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