Indonesia has had a complex history of communications due to its spread over an extended archipelago-the importance on non-electronic means in the past has given away to a considerable infrastructure of telecommunications in the contemporary Indonesia.

In the past, Malawi's telecommunications system has been named as some of the poorest in Africa, but conditions are improving, with 130, 000 land line telephones being connected between 2000 and 2007.

Faced with “ past technical deficiencies in telecommunications systems and equipment and software … that were traced to basic inadequacies in the application of telecommunication standards and to the lack of a well defined … program for their review, control and implementation ”, the U. S. Department of Defense looked to develop a series of standards that would alleviate the problem.

MCI's history, combined with the histories of companies it has acquired, echoes most of the trends that have swept American telecommunications in the past half-century: It was instrumental in pushing legal and regulatory changes that led to the breakup of the AT & T monopoly that dominated American telephony ; its purchase by WorldCom and subsequent bankruptcy in the face of accounting scandals was symptomatic of the Internet excesses of the late 1990s.

For the past 80 years, the United States has been integral in fundamental advances in telecommunications and technology.

Slovak Telekom ( in the past officially called Slovenské telekomunikácie and Slovak Telecom ; the brand used for fixed line products is T-Com since March 2006 ) is the largest telecommunications company operating in Slovakia ( after consolidation with its 100 per cent daughter T-Mobile Slovakia ).

Plans for a satellite bouquet managed by OTE ( the Greek telecommunications company ) never went past the test phase, with OTE leasing frequencies on the Hotbird satellite, rebroadcasting several smaller Greek TV stations as well as many radio stations free-to-air.

Sheikh Ghazi spent much of the past two decades in Saudi Arabia, where he became vice president of a telecommunications company.

In American industry, there has been a change in the concentration of skilled workers from the areas of past economic might e. g. steel, automobile, textile and chemicals to the more recent ( 21st century ) industry developments e. g. computers, telecommunications and information technology which is commonly stated to represent a plus rather than a minus for the American standard of living.

The first telegraph cable connecting Iceland to Europe was shored in Seyðisfjörður in 1906, making it a hub for international telecommunications well past the middle of last century.

In the past, self-propelled artillery has included direct fire vehicles such as assault guns and tank destroyers.

News statements are shown as continuously scrolling upper-case text located at the bottom of the screen ; some past ambiguities noted have included spelling the plural of MPs as " MPS ", together with other occasional spelling and grammatical errors.

The humanist tradition of the Renaissance included a revival of interest in Europe's classical past in ancient Greece and Rome.

Jeep's line of vehicles consists solely of sport utility vehicles and off-road vehicles but has also included pickup trucks in the past.

However, it also included several managers of money market funds who had worked with Milken in the past.

Because of its view of concepts as " open-ended " classifications that go well beyond the characteristics included in their past or current definitions, Objectivist epistemology rejects the analytic-synthetic distinction as a false dichotomy and denies the possibility of a priori knowledge.

Archives of past Playboy articles and interviews are also included.

In the past, Philips UK also included

It was around this time when a long series of busts of past Popes was made for the Duomo of Siena, which included one of the female Pope, named as " Johannes VIII, Foemina de Anglia " and included between Leo IV and Benedict III.

In the past few years, the field has exploded to include many additional areas of study, not all of which are clearly included under Darwin's definition of sexual selection.

In the past, self-propelled artillery has included direct-fire vehicles such as assault guns and tank destroyers.

The head of state of the Vatican is the pope, elected by the College of Cardinals, an assembly of Senatorial-princes of the Church, who are usually clerics, appointed as Ordinaries, but in the past have also included men who were not bishops nor clerics.

It has included the gradualistic concept that " the present is the key to the past " and is functioning at the same rates.

The reliability of these medieval prose narratives about the Scandinavian past is often doubtful, but some elements remain worthy of consideration, such as the great quantity of skaldic poetry attributed to court poets of the tenth and 11th centuries that was included in these writings.

Participation in past World Games is included in the evaluation criteria used to select new Olympic sports adopted by the IOC on August 12, 2004.

At various times in the past, taxonomists included many species in the genus Gadus.

In a study among Israeli young-adults, 4. 3 % had present or past body piercing ( not included earlobe, lip or intra-oral piercing ), and 5. 7 %, 6. 2 % and 15. 7 % had present or past lip piercing, body tattooing and intra-oral piercing, respectively.

In the past, other potent candidates have included chairmen of influential standing committees.

Most recent simulations show " plausible " agreement with the measured temperature anomalies over the past 150 years when forced by natural forcings alone, but better agreement is achieved when observed changes in greenhouse gases and aerosols are also included.

Possibly the most popular venue in Memphis, past acts have included Ani DiFranco, AFI, Cannibal Corpse, GWAR, Insane Clown Posse, Keller Williams, Lamb of God, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, and Black Sabbath among many others.

As one of the two major concert venues in Memphis, past acts have included the likes of R. E. M., Phish, 311, The Black Crowes, Fall Out Boy, Journey, New Kids on the Block, O. A. R., Pat Benatar, Smashing Pumpkins, Steely Dan, and Willie Nelson.

Other current board members include Kenneth Adelman, Farooq Kathwari, Azar Nafisi, Mark Palmer, P. J. O ' Rourke, and Lawrence Lessig, while past board-members have included Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Samuel Huntington, Mara Liasson, Otto Reich, Donald Rumsfeld, Whitney North Seymour, Paul Wolfowitz, Steve Forbes, and Bayard Rustin.

The one great drawback to wireless telegraphy in the past was its uncertainty due to the interference by atmospheric electricity, as well as by the signals of nearby stations.

Traditional crewel embroidery which seems to be appearing more frequently this fall than in the past few years is still available in this country.

In past years, the Factbook was available on CD-ROM, microfiche, magnetic tape, and floppy disk.

Since 1938, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. has published annually a Book of the Year covering the past year's events, which is available online back to the 1994 edition ( covering the events of 1993 ).

Reports of increasing friction in his marriage to Alice appeared, with speculation that some of this may have been due to financial resources not being as readily available to her as she was accustomed to having in the past.

The author of this article called the device a " phonographe ", but Cros himself favored the word " paleophone ", sometimes rendered in French as " voix du passé " ( voice of the past ) but more literally meaning " ancient sound ", which accorded well with his vision of his invention's potential for creating an archive of sound recordings that would be available to listeners in the distant future.

The fundamental difficulty in risk assessment is determining the rate of occurrence since statistical information is not available on all kinds of past incidents.

Note that the probability of risk occurrence is difficult to estimate, since the past data on frequencies are not readily available, as mentioned above.

A more significant revival occurred in the 1950s as a wider variety of ragtime styles of the past were made available on records, and new rags were composed, published, and recorded.

A wider variety of ragtime styles of the past were made available on records, and new rags were composed, published, and recorded.

Analysis of tree rings has revealed a detailed picture of past solar cycles: Dendrochronologically dated radiocarbon concentrations have allowed for a reconstruction of sunspot activity dating back 11, 400 years, far beyond the four centuries of available, reliable records from direct solar observation.

Alloys of lead and tin were universally used in the past, and are still available ; they are particularly convenient for hand-soldering.

" We should try to explain the past by causes now in operation without inventing extra, fancy, or unknown causes, however plausible in logic, if available processes suffice.

Despite the information available at the time, Garfield made a strong showing at the convention in 1874, commanding over two-thirds of the delegates, and then won re-election against Democratic and Independent opponents, though by a smaller margin than in the past.

Oceanographic data management is the discipline ensuring that oceanographic data both past and present are available to researchers.

The current implementation of the idea gains impetus from the relative ease with which digital delivery systems can handle what would otherwise have required, in the past, either a dedicated mechanical projector or the transfer to another film format for which projectors were already available.

One country where it remained widely available well past the 90s is the UK, where the chain Jessops carried one film: Kodak Ektachrome 64T.

Their past wide consumption in regions where present is evidenced by recipes available online and in books such as older editions of The Joy of Cooking.

After stating the assessment of the manor, the record sets forth the amount of arable land, and the number of plough teams ( each reckoned at eight oxen ) available for working it, with the additional number ( if any ) that might be employed ; then the river-meadows, woodland, pasture, fisheries ( i. e. fishing weirs ), water-mills, salt-pans ( if by the sea ) and other subsidiary sources of revenue ; the peasants are enumerated in their several classes ; and finally the annual value of the whole, past and present, is roughly estimated.

In the absence of knowledge currently available, the historians of the past often wrote of Lycian legends as though they had a historical basis.

In the Star Trek original series ( TOS ) episode " All Our Yesterdays ", Spock willingly consumes meat ; partly due to the effects of time-travel 5, 000 years into the past, and partly because he reasons there is no other suitable food available given the harsh, ice-age climate in which they are trapped.

Coal-tar creosote had also in the past been used as an escharotic to burn malignant skin tissue and in dentistry to prevent necrosis, but no longer is used that way because of its toxic, carcinogenic properties and because better and safer treatments are now available.

Having been available only as an import in the US in the past, the album was also issued domestically in the US on LP and cassette on 21 July 1987.

Having been available only as an import in the US in the past, the album was also issued domestically in the US on LP and cassette on 21 July 1987.

Despite Shatner's doubts, Nimoy and Bennett selected a time travel story in which the Enterprise crew encounters a problem that could only be fixed by something only available in the present day ( the Star Trek characters ' past ).