Telephone Tuesday – September 2, 2026

Expected Telephone Tuesday Deals

While we await official 2027 promotions, history shows that businesses often roll out special offers to manage the surge in customer inquiries and sales on Telephone Tuesday. Expect telecommunication companies like Verizon and AT&T to highlight new service plans or upgrades. Customer service software providers such as Zendesk or Salesforce might offer trial extensions or discounts on their solutions. Retailers like Best Buy could feature deals on phones, headsets, or office communication tech. Even local businesses might promote special customer service hours or incentives for online inquiries to alleviate phone traffic. We will update this page with confirmed live deals as September 7 approaches.

History of Telephone Tuesday

The invention of the telephone goes way back to the 1880’s and is widely understood to have first been invented by Alexander Graham Bell. However, it is said that the telephone had been in development since the 1660’s but there’s no clear indication as to by whom. They weren’t actually called telephones at first. Phones were called Mechanical Acoustic Devices because they simply transmitted voice data instead of audio. The first known conversation on the telephone was between Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant on March 10, 1876. He spoke into a telephone and said ‘‘Mr Watson, come here, I want to see you.’’ 

The first ever phone users, used to use the same opening to talk and listen, as there was only one wire for receiving and transmitting your voice. Soon, telephone operators were required to assist and to connect more calls. Women became the majority of staff in telephone exchange jobs, as many young men were proving to enjoy pranks too often while connecting calls, and lines were not being connected successfully.

In 1982, a man named Almon Brown Stowger who was previously an undertaker, invented an automatic telephone exchange company due to his frustration. He was having difficulty with local telephone operators sending his calls to his competitor all the time. His company then worked with the ‘‘British Post Offices’’ in 1912, landing a contract with the British telephone system. Regardless, some people were still using manual exchange phone calls up until 1976 in places like Scotland. By 1973, the mobile phone had arrived by Motorola and it weighed 2 kilograms! Ten years later in 1983, Motorola released the DynaTAC 8000X which cost $4,000 and had a battery life of 30 minutes.