SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE GPO


The Post Office provided switching networks (telephone and telegraph systems) and supplied instruments to work on those networks.

They also managed, maintained and provided other services, many of which were aligned to Government departments, private networks and ad-hoc telephony services.

This section just advises of what these were but does not go into any great detail and is definitely not a complete list.

Private Communication Services - List of services

ACD Systems
Audio Tele-conferencing
Blind Operators
Centralised Dictation facilities
Confraphone
Datel Circuits and Equipment
Datelplex Service 110
Exchange Telegraph Company Ltd (EXTEL) connectivity
Fire Alarm Systems (Street type)
Firemen's Remote Control Callout Systems
Hospital Programme Networks
Inter-PBX signalling - AC15A
Midnight Line Service
Motorway Communication System
Multi-Terminal series connected DC circuits (Burglar alarm circuits)
Music by Wire
Omnibus Speech-band private circuits
Orator - Conference Facility
Point to Point DC circuits
Police and Ambulance Street Network
Prison to Police circuits
Program sound circuits
Radiophone
Radio Paging
Sound circuits for broadcasting authorities
Speech Broadcast Suites
Speechband Private Circuits
Subscriber Controlled Transfer
Telespot - Phone in system
Teletrolley Service
Vision Circuits
WB 200
WB 300 - Nuclear radio leak warning system
WB 400 - Air raid warning system
WB 500 - Electricity load control trial
WB 600 - Air raid siren system
WB 700 - Local Call Timing Tariff Pulse System
WB 800 - Music Distribution (Planned Music Ltd - MUSAK)
WB 900 - 1+1 subscribers carrier system
WB 1000 - ABC Alarms
WB 1100
WB 1400 - Air raid warning system
Wideband private circuits

 

 
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