The First Commercial Telephone Exchange In Massachusetts Opened In Lowell. It was the First Massachusetts Exchange to be connected Long Distance to The Boston Telephone Dispatch Company in Boston. The Lowell Telephone Exchange merged with The Boston Telephone Dispatch Company and Transformed into The New England Telephone And Telegraph Company.

On This Day in Telephone History April 19TH 1878

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The First Commercial Telephone Exchange in Massachusetts opened in Lowell.
It was the First Massachusetts Exchange to be connected Long Distance to The Boston Telephone Dispatch Company in Boston. The Lowell Telephone Exchange merged with The Boston Telephone Dispatch Company and Transformed into The New England Telephone And Telegraph Company.

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