Telephone
Telephones - main lines in use: 3,000 (1994)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 280 (1994)
Telephone system: telex services
domestic: Majuro Atoll and Ebeye and Kwajalein islands have regular, seven-digit, direct-dial telephones; other islands interconnected by shortwave radio, telephone (used mostly for government purposes)
international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean); US Government satellite communications system on Kwajalein
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Famous quotes containing the word telephone:
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—Crystal Eastman (1881–1928)
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