Telephones – main lines in use: 37, 500 ( 2006 )

Telephones – mobile cellular: 110, 200 ( 2006 ) ( APUA PCS, Cable & Wireless, Digicel )

Telephones – main lines in use:

Telephones – mobile cellular:

Telephones – main lines in use: 94, 800 ( 2006 )

Telephones – mobile cellular: 1, 611, 000 ( 2007 )

Telephones – mobile cellular: 23. 081 million ( 2009 )

Telephones – main lines in use:

Telephones – mobile cellular:

Telephones – main lines in use: 25. 019 million ( 1995 )

Telephones – mobile cellular: 161, 000, 000 ( 2007 )

Post Office Telephones was reorganised in 1980 – 81 as British Telecommunications ( British Telecom, or BT ), and was the first nationalised industry to be privatised by the Conservative government.

* Charles Guernier – Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones

* Charles Guernier – Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones

* Georges Mandel – Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones

* Robert Jardillier – Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones

* Jean-Baptiste Lebas – Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones

* Alfred Jules-Julien – Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, Telephones, and Transmissions

* Georges Mandel – Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones

* André Mallarmé – Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones

* Laurent Eynac – Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones

* June 12 – Saskatchewan Government Telephones created.

After Haile Selassie's return to Ethiopia, Lorenzo was appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs ( 1941 – 1943 ), and subsequently Minister for Posts, Telephones and Telegrams ( 1943 ).

* Robert Jardillier ( SFIO ) – Minister of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones ( PTT )

Starting in 1938, Post Office Telephones laid dedicated cables, for numerous telephone and telegraph circuits, from the nearby repeater station at Fenny Stratford ( on Watling Street, the main road linking London to the north-west, later to be designated the A5 ).

; Telephones: main lines in use: 10. 808 million ( 2006 )

* Telephones: 4, 390, 800 main lines in use ( 2005 )

Telephones and ISDN-main lines in use: 52. 3981 million ( 2007 )

Telephones are much more accessible in urban areas, with less than a quarter of land lines being in rural areas.

Telephones for traditional residential analog service are usually connected directly to telephone company phone lines which provide direct current to power most basic analog handsets independently of locally available power.

Telephones, DSL lines and television cables use equalizers to prepare data signals for transmission.

Some, primarily producing telephone bills, were still in commercial use with GPO Telephones, forerunner of British Telecom, until 1981, which remained usable through parts cannibalised from redundant LEOs purchased by the GPO.

Telephones were concealed in over 50 other objects including a necktie, comb, watch, clock, handkerchief, magazine, a garden hose, a car cigarette lighter ( the cigarette lighter was hidden in the car phone ), belt, wallet, a bottle of perfume, ( to use it you had to push down on the top, and Max complained of smelling like a woman ) the steering wheel of a car ( where Max complained that if he made a right turn he dialed the operator ), a painting of a telephone, the headboard of his bed, a sandwich, lab test tubes ( in which Max grabs the wrong one and splashes himself ), and of all places, as a tiny phone inside another full-sized working phone!

Various 1G standards that were in use in Europe include C-Netz ( in Germany and Austria ), Comviq ( in Sweden ), Nordic Mobile Telephones / 450 ( NMT450 ) and NMT900 ( both in Nordic countries ), NMT-F ( French version of NMT900 ), Radiocom 2000 ( RC2000 ) ( in France ), and TACS ( Total Access Communication System ) ( in the United Kingdom and Ireland ).

Advanced American Telephones also entered a ten-year licensing agreement with AT & T to use the AT & T brand on all telephones it would produce.

Telephones, Teletypes, several kinds of radio systems and, in some cases, television, link all vital points.

; Telephones: mobile cellular: 30. 047 million ( 2007 )

Telephones were not yet widespread, and those who had them tended to be prosperous and have stable addresses.

* domestic: 6. 5 Telephones per thousand persons

Telephones played a significant role during the upheavals of 1917.

Telephones are a point-to-point communication system whose most basic function is to allow two people separated by large distances to talk to each other.

Telephones are a duplex communications medium, meaning they allow the people on both ends to talk simultaneously.

Telephones connected to the earliest Strowger automatic exchanges had seven wires, one for the knife switch, one for each telegraph key, one for the bell, one for the push-button and two for speaking.

Post Office Telephones also operated telephone services in Jersey and the Isle of Man until 1969 when the islands took over responsibility for their own postal and telephone services.

Telephones are connected to the telephone exchange via a local loop, which is a physical pair of wires.

Telephones were originally connected directly together in pairs.

The same month, Alberta Government Telephones started " Project VIDON ", a smaller modem-based test in the Calgary area.

Telephones no longer worked, electricity was no longer available and sewage systems were incapacitated.

The Birmingham Civic Society then produced a design of its own — in reinforced concrete — but it was informed by the Director of Telephones that the design produced by the Office of the Engineer-in-Chief was preferred ; as the Architects ’ Journal commented, ' no one with any knowledge of design could feel anything but indignation with the pattern that seems to satisfy the official mind.

Upon the privatisation of Post Office Telephones ' successor, British Telecom ( BT ), the KX100, a more utilitarian design, began to replace most of the existing boxes.

Telephones are dead and there is only static on the radio.