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[Prateek Dubey]

Prateek Dubey : Mobile​

A lot of handicapped people in Delhi have been provided with these mobile carts offering inland telephony. STD is for ' Straight Trunk Dialing' and PCO is for ' Public Call Office'. I took this shot because I liked how a couple of these carts were providing a graphic enclosure to the boy. The boy is not handicapped. He was standing up for the person allotted the cart. The mobile is a CDMA type. I don't know what CDMA is for, but the call rates are very reasonable.

It has ISD too which can make international calls. Local calls are for Rs 2 per minute ( Rs 2 is less than half a cent )....

 

[Asher Kelman]

Prateek,

There's no question that you like bold clear color sets. Here we just have 3 paints: black, yellow, red and then brown of his face.

How does one pedal the thing? Do you have another picture to show it in motion? It seems like it might move, but is it a cart or a mobile phone unit or what? Can we have translation?

Asher

 

[Prateek Dubey]

Prateek,

There's no question that you like bold clear color sets. Here we just have 3 paints: black, yellow, red and then brown of his face.

How does one pedal the thing? Do you have another picture to show it in motion? It seems like it might move, but is it a cart or a mobile phone unit or what? Can we have translation?

Asher

Hello Asher,
If you look a bit closer, next to the chain gear is a metal handle on the extreme right. Moving is by turning that handle . It is a cart, which has this CDMA type phone ( it is wireless).

 

[John Angulat]

Prateek, the framing of the boy is absolutely exquisite!

 

[Doug Kerr]

Hi, Prateek,

Prateek Dubey : Mobile​

A lot of handicapped people in Delhi have been provided with these mobile carts offering inland telephony. STD is for ' Straight Trunk Dialing'

Originally, "Subscriber Trunk Dialing" (what we called in the US "Direct Distance Dialing").

ISD is international subscriber dialing.

CDMA is code-division multiple access, an alternative wireless transmission protocol to TDMA (time-division multiple access), which is what is used by the regular GSM mobile system.

Great shot. Thanks.

Best regards,

Doug

 

[Prateek Dubey]

Hi, Prateek,


Originally, "Subscriber Trunk Dialing" (what we called in the US "Direct Distance Dialing").

ISD is international subscriber dialing.

CDMA is code-division multiple access, an alternative wireless transmission protocol to TDMA (time-division multiple access), which is what is used by the regular GSM mobile system.

Great shot. Thanks.

Best regards,

Doug

Hello Doug,
After posting the picture, I was hoping you have look at it and clear the terms. In India one had to 'book' a call made to another city barely 15 years ago. So the last fifteen years has seen a massive change in how Indians communicated. I think the 'straight' here is for bypassing the monotonous and rude telephone operators who booked the call.

 

[Doug Kerr]

Hi, Prateek,

I think the 'straight' here is for bypassing the monotonous and rude telephone operators who booked the call.

That could well be. It is very parallel to what happened in the US much earlier.

Long before there was any direct dialing of intercity calls by subscribers (in fact, in some cases before dial service for local calls), there was a change from the practice of "booking" intercity calls to the practice of the subscriber contacting a long distance operator who would actually put the call through on the spot (in most cases).

That was called inside the industry, technically, "combined line and recording" (CLR) operation, where "recording" referred to taking the order for the call (which in the "booking" era was done by a "recording" operator) and "line" referred to actually accessing the intercity lines to complete the call.

During the "booking" era, the operators that actually set up the call were called "completing" operators. So sometimes the "combined line and recording" switchboards were called "recording-completing" switchboards (but still abbreviated "CLR").

Another interesting and related matter of terminology is that in UK practice (and thus, I'm afraid, on the Subcontinent) "trunk" specifically referred to an intercity "link", whereas in the US "trunk" referred to any link between switching centers, local or intercity.

Much fun.

Someday we can talk about traditional Indian vs. US railway signaling practice!

Best regards,

Doug

 

[Cedric MASSOULIER]

Hi,

Magnificent picture, with a strong composition (see this broken line which underline boy's watching) and deep and rich colors. Chain and its mechanism could be seen as symbols of fatality and modern life.

Regards,

Cedric.

 

[Prateek Dubey]

Hi, Prateek,

That could well be. It is very parallel to what happened in the US much earlier.

Long before there was any direct dialing of intercity calls by subscribers (in fact, in some cases before dial service for local calls), there was a change from the practice of "booking" intercity calls to the practice of the subscriber contacting a long distance operator who would actually put the call through on the spot (in most cases).

That was called inside the industry, technically, "combined line and recording" (CLR) operation, where "recording" referred to taking the order for the call (which in the "booking" era was done by a "recording" operator) and "line" referred to actually accessing the intercity lines to complete the call.

During the "booking" era, the operators that actually set up the call were called "completing" operators. So sometimes the "combined line and recording" switchboards were called "recording-completing" switchboards (but still abbreviated "CLR").

Another interesting and related matter of terminology is that in UK practice (and thus, I'm afraid, on the Subcontinent) "trunk" specifically referred to an intercity "link", whereas in the US "trunk" referred to any link between switching centers, local or intercity.

Much fun.

Someday we can talk about traditional Indian vs. US railway signaling practice!

Best regards,

Doug

Hello Doug,
Thank you so much for the insight. Things are so much different now. We hardly ever use a landline anymore. Infact I don't readily recall my home landline number. The cell phone has taken over, infact it taken over my memory too. So many things of importance recorded in my ancient Nokia.
The railway signalling is another matter. I think, and I've seen it often times people in these buildings ( Junction boxes!??) pulling on big levers to change tracks. Since I was a child I had a big liking for railway engines. Even now I love the big deisel locomotives. How at just a push of a button the big creature rumbles into life and those huge exhausts belching copious amounts of smoke. Just too romantic.

 

[Prateek Dubey]

Prateek, the framing of the boy is absolutely exquisite!

Thank you John.