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20: SINGAPORE TELECOMS: AN OVERVIEW
https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814759748_0020Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)
Abstract:
Telephones were first introduced in Singapore in 1879 by Bennett Pell, manager of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, with a trial connection made between Raffles Square and Tanjong Pagar using a telegraph line. Pell also set up a 50-line exchange made up of manual switchboards in 1881, giving Singapore a head start. The city state, then a British colony, was the first in the East to have a telephone system, barely three years after Alexander Graham Bell patented his invention.
