The first telephone exchange opened in 1878 From the Historical Telephone Timeline Series. Peggy DiPirro. Telephone exchanges were referred to as ‘central offices’ or ‘wire centers’.

One thing that you won't see in the Openreach telephone exchange is VDSL ("superfast broadband") equipment. That equipment is instead much closer to your house, inside or next to a PCP (a primary ...

A 1930s telephone exchange in Cambridge, UK, has been retrofitted and converted into a "joyful and welcoming" office building by architecture studios Architype and Eve Waldron Design.