Possible Clues:

• One may connect you with Eton - it helps when travelling
• Switchboard operator
• One connected people in exchange for a living
• One waking you in inept hotels in error?
• Sacked hotel’s inept switchboard worker
• Expert with receiver shifting hot steel pin
• Hotline pest worried operator
• Hotline set to get into action without prime requirement of person here?
• Changing tone, it helps her job?
• In exchange one made connections on board