Woodbury Telephone

[3] On June 1, 2007, the company was dissolved and merged all assets and operations into Southern New England Telephone.[4] Woodbury Telephone began operation in the 1870s when a local businessman, Mr. Charles A.Stone visited the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition 1876 and realized the value of connecting his grain and feed store to the Southbury Railroad Station via the telephone.The company continued in operation and upgraded from a manual switchboard to a direct dial system in 1955.As the service area grew considerably in the 1970s and 1980s the company deployed digital switching, fiber optic network architecture and in the 1990s it successfully introduced internet service with broadband access.
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