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re: What actually was a service?
Posted by: bobby2 10:15 pm EST 12/15/17
In reply to: What actually was a service? - Singapore/Fling 09:54 pm EST 12/15/17

You need to watch the movie of Bells are Ringing. It is about an answering service operator. This was back before answering machines. The services would answer your phone calls and take messages for you. (one thing I never understood was if you had a special phone number you gave out that only the service would answer or if even back then there was a call forwarding type feature where they could intercept your home phone calls.)
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re: What actually was a service?
Posted by: Thom915 11:01 pm EST 12/15/17
In reply to: re: What actually was a service? - bobby2 10:15 pm EST 12/15/17

When I first started we actually answered the phone numbers of people during certain times or after a certain number of rings. I do not know exactly how this was accomplished but it was limited to the people being in a certain geographic area. These were for special clients, doctors lawyers, producers, the occasional star, etc. Most of our clients however had a general number that we would answer and then hold the message for them to call in or in some cases we would contact them (extra fee) at a number they gave us. shortly after I moved to the second answering company, call forwarding was introduced and except for one or two clients, all of our clients used that in addition to a general number they could give out if they did not wish to give out their personal number. By the time I moved to the third service, everything was on call forwarding.
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