Landline Phones

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  Watch: Man Reverse-Engineers Old Landline Into Music Player, Fires Up Tame Impala Song

  A hobbyist developer transformed an old landline telephone into a music player and blasted a Tame Impala song, leaving social media users amused.

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  Viral Reddit Post Lists Things From The Past That Will Shock Gen-Z: "When The Internet..."

  The responses are a mix of nostalgic throwbacks and fascinating revelations that will leave you either reminiscing or scratching your head.

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  Harry's Calls, Princess Diana's Messages Accessed By UK Tabloids: Report

  Rupert Murdoch's British tabloid papers bugged Prince Harry's landline phones and accessed the messages on the pager of his late mother Princess Diana, the British royal's legal team told London's High Court on Thursday.

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  "Kind Of Dinosaur Museum": Anand Mahindra Shares Video Of Decades-Old Household Items

  An antique landline phone, a scooter, an iron, and several different types of lanterns can be seen in the video. It also features a vintage alarm clock, an old torchlight, a kerosene burner and a container.

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  Use Mobiles At Work Only If Necessary: Maharashtra Tells State Employees

  The Maharashtra government on Friday asked its employees to restrict the use of mobile phones to a minimum during office hours, saying that landlines are more preferable amid the Pegasus snooping scandal.

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  If You Are Old Enough, You Will Recognise Bottega Veneta's Rs 1.45 Lakh Necklace

  People who grew up in the era of landline phones will have no trouble recognising the trademark twisted telephone cable that luxury fashion house Bottega Veneta has now appropriated into a necklace. The coiled necklace retails for a staggering $2,000 on the Italian fashion house's website.

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  Landline to Mobile Calls Won’t Go Through Without Prefix ‘0’ Starting Today

  A Department of Telecommunications (DoT) directive that goes into effect today, January 15, mandates all landline users in India to prefix the calls made to mobile phones with ‘0’. Calls made without the prefix ‘0’ won’t go through.

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  Callers Will Soon Have to Dial ‘0’ Before Making Landline to Mobile Phone Calls: Telecom Department

  The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) says that all fixed line subscribers should be provided with ‘0’ dialling facility, i.e., STD calling. Furthermore, an announcement explaining the change should be created and fed into fixed line switches to bring awareness. DoT orders that this announcement should be made whenever a subscriber dials a...

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  Prefix "0" To Calls From Landlines To Mobiles Starting January 1

  Callers will soon be required to add '0' prefix for making calls from landlines to mobile phones in the country, with the telecom department asking telcos to make necessary arrangements by January 1 to implement the new system.

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  Add a '0' Before Dialling a Mobile Phone Number, Says TRAI

  The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Friday released its latest recommendations for developing a ‘Unified Numbering Plan’ to ensure adequate numbering resources for fixed line (aka landline) and mobile services in the country.