Automatic ticketing of telephone calls

There has recently been placed in commercial service in the Bell System a new arrangement of telephone-switching equipment designed to enable telephone users in a metropolitan area to dial for themselves their calls to nearby points instead of placing them with an operator. This added central-office equipment has the distinctive feature that it automatically prepares an individual printed ticket showing the information needed for charging for the call. The initial installation serves some 8,000 subscribers at Culver City, adjoining os Angeles. It enables them to dial directly, in the same way as local calls, their calls to various points within the os Angeles metropolitan area and here by enlarges the scope of their dial service, with its attendant advantages in speed and convenience.