When did they stop using the operator on telephones?

Answer 1

Oh, dude, they stopped using operators for direct dialing in the 1960s. Like, can you imagine having to talk to a real person just to make a call? So inconvenient, right? But yeah, now we just press a few buttons and boom, we're connected.

Answer 2

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• It was either Good Morning or Good Afternoon, the same as they should be using now!
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• I learned in elementary school that the first telephone answers said Hello, which means to shout, of course that is where hello comes from.

Answer 3

In the US many large cities implemented local dialing and eliminated local operators in the late 1920s, but such dial switching systems were too expensive for use in towns and rural communities.

Beginning in the 1950s less expensive dial switching equipment permitted the elimination of local operators in most places in the US.

However long distance calls still required long distance operators, because there was no standardization of phone numbers (they varied in length from 4 to 6 digits depending on the city or town).

By the early 1960s Direct Distance Dialing (DDD) was implemented along with 3 digit area codes and standardized 7 digit phone numbers almost everywhere in the US and Canada. Whitehorse, Yukon in Canada was one of the last to support DDD in 1972. Full implementation of DDD allowed the elimination of long distance operators.

A small number of operators do still remain today, for handling special types of calls (e.g. person to person).

Answer 4

In the late1980’s the phone systems went automatic without operators.