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2 unusual facts about Telephone operator


Telephone operator

Telephone company, one that offers telephone services to subscribers

Switchboard operator, a person who provides assistance to a telephone caller


Telephone company

Comedian Lily Tomlin frequently satirized the telephone industry (and the country's then-dominant Bell System in particular) with a skit playing the telephone operator Ernestine.


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Bay of Plenty Polytechnic

In addition to the core programme, students receive full SCUBA training up to PADI Divemaster or Open Water Instructor, as well as with certifications including NZ Coastguard Boatmaster, Restricted Radio Telephone Operator's Certificate, NZ Red Cross First Aid Provider and DAN Oxygen Provider.

Wolfgang Döblin

Drafted in November 1938, after refusing to be exempted from military service, he had to stay in the active Army when World War II broke out in 1939, and was quartered at Givet, in the Ardennes, as a telephone operator.