The telecommunications history of Miskolc

The development of news broadcasting technology in the second half of the 19th century was greatly accelerated by the discovery of Samuel Morse's telegraph, Graham Bell's teleconference (1876), and the use of Puskás Tivadar and Ferenc's teleconference center (1881). Miskolc opened its telegraph station on May 27, 1859. The city management used the new theater II, built in 1857, as a temporary location. provided 3 rooms for the telegraph station on the first floor. "The telegraph station was put into operation in Miskolc from the 27th of May of the current year of the Miskolc City Authority, and from that day the use of the telegraph was opened for both official and private correspondence. We hereby notify the city authority in order to make it public information. Dated in Miskolc, May 31, 1859. Vadnay." In 1888, the post office moved from Régiposta utca to the post office building, opposite the theater, and in 1891, it moved to the new building of the post office and tele office, in Déryné utca. The Morse telegraph was later replaced by the Hughes typewriter, which was in use from 1870 until World War II. From 1930, the machine telegraph took over, and telegraph centers were established. Later, from 1950, the telegraph subscriber service began to operate; telex and direct dial telegraph connection between countries; the gentex. In 1888, the local company Wilhellm and Jenei received permission to establish the public telephone exchange and network in Miskolc. Miskolc's first telephone exchange was opened for traffic on Sunday, December 15, 1888. Széchenyi u. The telephone exchange located in the building under 52 had 23 subscriber lines and 2 public stations. Jenei Soma announced the opening of the telephone network in Miskolc as follows: "I am fortunate to inform the mt audience that the local telephone network was handed over to the public service on Sunday and when the list of those for whom the telephone has been installed so far will be published below, that t. we have also organized two public stations available to the public, where anyone can use the telephone for a small fee. Service hours at the center: March 1 to Oct. until the 31st; From 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Nov. 1 to Feb. until the end. From 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Miskolc, also in the afternoon. December 15, 1888. Wilhellm and Jenei are the owners of the Miskolc telephone network. In 1900, the telephone network replaced by the post office moved to the building on Déryné Street, the number of subscribers was 150. By October of this year, the telephone network between Budapest-Miskolc-Kassa was completed, so Miskolc also joined the interurban traffic. According to research, the first small 12-page privately published telephone directory without year was published in 1908 for the subscribers of the Miskolc and county telephone network. The roster lists 438 subscribers by name and exact address and phone number. The main post office was moved to 14 Kazinczy Street in 1906. under the so-called The telegraph and telephone equipment were placed in a wing of a Munk-style house. The number of subscribers in Miskolc was 1,087 in 1925 and 1,409 in 1931. Kazinczy Street 16. a new post office building was built under it, which was handed over in 1937. On May 17, 1937, the new Swedish Ericsson-made automatic telephone exchange was put into operation, which was made with the initial construction of 1,300 separate lines and 700 twin-pair stations. In 1954, the Ericsson center was replaced by a 7A2 system center with an initial capacity of 4,000 lines (expandable to 17,000 lines). The dismantled Ericsson center was put into operation in Eger in 1955 with a line capacity of 2,400. After the telegraph centers were automated, the telex service started in 1962. In 1985, Magyar Posta introduced the remote copying service, the telefax, on an experimental basis. The last expansion of the 7A-2 center - with 4,000 stations - took place in 1969, increasing its capacity to 11,600. In 1973, in order to satisfy the additional needs, a modern main center with a crossbar system was established in Újdiósgyőr with an initial capacity of 6,000 stations, which took over the supply of the feeding areas belonging to it from the downtown center. By 1983, the development of Miskolc's telephone network had become urgent, and the number of people waiting reached nine thousand. Despite the development of the existing center and the installation of container centers, it became necessary to build a third ARF main center. The Avasi telephone exchange with an initial capacity of 10,000 was switched on in the fall of 1983 with 6,500,000 subscribers, and its capacity reached 20,000 lines in 2005 when it was switched off. To meet additional needs, VII. the construction of the regional center in Miskolc was included in the five-year plan. The construction of the new building began in 1985, and the foundation stone was laid in 1986. In the initial construction, the ARF local center with a capacity of 30,000 stations and an ARM201/4 type center with a capacity of 4,800 arc points was handed over to traffic in October 1990. The downtown regional center - as the last crossbar center in the country - was switched off in December 2005 amid solemn appearances.