Telephone
Telephones - main lines in use: 110,100 (2005 - source: ITU)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 281,400 (Sep 2005 - source: Informa Telecoms)
Telephone system: fair system for long-distance calling
domestic: microwave radio relay network for trunk lines
international: tropospheric scatter to Trinidad; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); Americas II submarine cable
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Famous quotes containing the word telephone:
“It is possible that the telephone has been responsible for more business inefficiency than any other agency except laudanum.... In the old days when you wanted to get in touch with a man you wrote a note, sprinkled it with sand, and gave it to a man on horseback. It probably was delivered within half an hour, depending on how big a lunch the horse had had. But in these busy days of rush-rush-rush, it is sometimes a week before you can catch your man on the telephone.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.”
—Cole Porter (1893–1964)