What’s the 411 on the 540? You may have heard the news that Roanoke is on track to get a new area code. You may have found yourself wondering what it means to you…or whether it matters. Well, area codes have a storied history but while they do matter, they don’t have quite the same […]
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Why Cell Phones Can’t Cut It for Your Business
Why Can’t I Just Use My Cell Phone? Although the first mobile phone available to the public was released by Motorola in 1973, they first gained notice in the United Stated in the 1980s and didn’t really take off in popularity until the 1990s. Since then, predictors have proclaimed the death of the […]
Continue readingA Short Story From the RCI Archives
I heard an old, old story. Once upon a time… Everyone loves a little story here and there. We make sense of life through stories. We share them when we want to get a point across or lighten the mood. We read them to pass the time. With RCI having been in business for […]
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Affordable, Productivity-Enhancing Features When RCI started in the late 70s, we were a custom-engineering firm that designed equipment to allow telephone systems to do things they weren’t built to do. Over time, as telephone systems became more sophisticated, we shifted into the sales and service of telephone systems and other technology because phone […]
Continue readingTelephones: The Original Disruptive Technology
Out of the Mouths of Centurions In November 2014, the Roanoke Times published an article by reporter Zach Krizer about Centurion resident of Wirtz, Virginia Rosa Beckner. The article was written to commemorate her supercentenarian birthday. She turned 111 on November 11, 2014 or 11/11. In the article, Mrs. Beckner talked about […]
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