Word: telecom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breakdowns and mistakes in programming commonly cause problems. The software bugs that may linger for many months can invoke a state of perplexed ennui in even the most sanguine of computer phone users. Danray, a Texas-based communications firm that was acquired last year by Canada's Northern Telecom, installed a PBX system two months ago at AMF headquarters in White Plains, N. Y. Reports one AMF employee: "The new system has its problems. We have trouble with connections, and quite often calls don't get through. I often can't get my husband on the phone...
Quebec politicians described Sun Life's move as "economic blackmail"; the federal government protested it would hurt "national unity." Still, some small companies have already quit Quebec entirely, and many big firms, including the Royal Bank of Canada, the Bank of Montreal, Northern Telecom Ltd. and the Royal Trust Co., have simply moved key departments. As long as managers worry about the possibility, however remote, of one day waking up to find themselves marooned in a small nation, some will continue to flee...
...Northern Telecom Ltd. of Montreal, second in North America only to Western Electric in the manufacture of telecommunications equipment, has located three new plants in the South since 1974. To bring bosses where the workers are, the company in May moved its U.S. subsidiary headquarters from Waltham, Mass., to Nashville...