Norwegian state-owned telecommunications company
Telenor helped the Myanmar Junta.
Business came first!

https://www.justiceinitiative.org/newsroom/telenor-faces-legal-action-over-human-rights-abuses-in-myanmar

#Norway #warcrimes #telenor #telecommunications #phonecompany #junta #myanmar #humanrights #militaryjunta #greed

1963 Illinois Bell Telephone Company Building
Vandalia, Illinois, USA

#Photography #Illinois #VandaliaIL #ILBell #IllinoisBell #PhoneCompany

@Impish4249 @allanb

Rotary phones were in use long after that in Canada, and probably other places, but touch-tone was also available. In the late 80s/early 90s I still had a line that would only do pulse dialing, because touch-tone dialing was an add-on charge with the phone company where I lived.

It was a significant amount; just adding touch-tone support increased the monthly bill by almost 10%. Yes, this was a BS charge, because it was just a flag they set on your account. It didn't cost them anything to provide tone dialing. They still do the same thing with caller-ID, so I don't have it. "We don't care. We're the phone company; we don't have to."

At the time, many (perhaps most) phones you could buy had push-button dialing, but there was a switch on the phone to choose pulse or tone dialing. If you set it to pulse, you'd push the 7 button, and then you'd hear 7 clicks, etc.

So kind of "hybrid dialing".

#Canada #phone #telephone #pulse #tone #dial #TouchTone #dialing #rotary #WeDontCare #PhoneCompany

For the past few months, I have had problems with my credit card, so I've been #payingthebill for my #CellPhone at the #Store I bought it from.

And for the past few months, the #phonecompany, #Telus, has been making that HARDER and HARDER to do.

FIRST they stop accepting #cashpayments, THEN they CHARGE me for #paying with #debit, and NOW they're #phasingout the ability to pay at the store altogether.

Can anyone PLEASE explain the logic of making it HARDER for me to pay my bills?