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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Tuesday Trivia - Vista United Telecommunications

Did you know that when Walt Disney World opened it was the first company/organization ever to offer completely electronic phone service to its' guests?  


Vista United Telecommunications (a Disney partnership), who originally managed all of the resort's telecommunications, devised a computer controlled system that was the first to be able to: 

  • connect international calls without the aid of an overseas operator
  • provide 100 percent single-party service
  • total touch-tone dialing
  • and the first phone system ever to feature completely buried cable
  • and then in 1978 was the first phone company in the entire United States to offer the most extensive installation of fiber optic cable

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