Telephones in Ansonville were operated by a switchboard until 1967, when they were replaced by the dial system. The old telephone company was called the Ansonville Telephone Commission. Iroquois Falls already had the dial system, so they had to dial "0" for Ansonville and an operator would patch them through.

The first one hundred line automatic board was installed in 1929.  Additional boards were installed as required. By 1939 there were two hundred phones available, and ten years after that there were three hundred. In 1959 there were six hundred phones available in town. In 1960 dial phones had only recently been installed in Timmins, and many other towns in Northern Ontario had still not converted to the dial system. Iroquois Falls had already had this convenience for almost 35 years, and had been the first to have the dial phone in Northern Ontario.