VOIP telephone service and cell phones have edged out landlines in how businesses and everyday people make phone calls. Landlines were a quintessential part of communication and home life for decades. It was the 80s when cell phones came along and the 90s when they became more common. But it wasn’t until the early naughts […]
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RCI History is Like A Worth-While Trip
Last month, I shared the story of a trip RCI President & CEO John Whitcomb took to deliver a paging system part to a customer in Northern Virginia. Of course, that trip was all in the line of duty, but little did I know that this month, at the time of this writing, John would […]
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Have You Heard About Roanoke’s New Area Code?
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 […]
Continue readingWhy 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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