Joan Marsland was a GPO telephonist at Telephone House, Chapel Street in Salford. On a Sunday night in December 1941, the cathedral was bombed. Next morning, the buses could go no further than All ...

An Aer Rianta telephonist suffered posttraumatic stress disorder, nightmares and flashbacks, her hair began to fall out and she stayed in bed for 1½ years just days after she took a phone call ...

I started in the Civil Service on my 17th birthday to train as a GPO telephonist for The London Telecommunications Service. 14.4.1940 We had strict training from the word ‘go’. It was verbal tests, ...

During the last year of the war I left school and started work as a GPO telephonist. After training and gaining enough experience of the usual switchboard operating we had extra training to man an ...

Helen Hastwell fondly remembers the days she worked as a "Statue? Girl" connecting calls in regional South Australia to bring people closer together. "We'd put a plug in and answer our call and we ...

How many services is your mobile number linked to right now? How many contacts do you have on your phone? Do you receive OTPs on your mobile numbers? Now imagine if someone used your own number ...

A group of Chinese researchers have demonstrated an "evil attack" called the "Ghost Telephonist" which allows hackers to take over phone numbers and gather call and message content. The demonstration ...

Telephonist of the Year Award was presented to Julie Kitt, who works at the Central Telephone Exchange in Dublin, by Dr Michael Smurfit. Report shows winner being announced. Julie Kitt receiving the ...

Mary Keefe, who has died aged 92, was a Vermont telephone operator whom her neighbour, the illustrator Norman Rockwell, immortalised as his model for the heroine of Rosie the Riveter, the second World ...