Random pic 8 August 2023
Mickey Mouse phone https://flic.kr/p/2oooqae
The guide at the Nottingham Industrial Museum said Plessey decided to make Mickey Mouse phone's in response to BT's claim that changing regulation and allowing people to buy and connect their own phone's to the PSTN rather than renting them from BT meant any old Mickey Mouse phone might be plugged in to the network!
A nice story but I've a feeling they might have been available already in the US ... When I raised it he didn't seem enamoured with the idea of VoIP but I probably wasn't popular mentioning that by the time one could connect one's own phone's the PSTN was mainly only analogue between the consumer and the exchange anyway ...
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