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There was no doorbell or telephone and the doors were locked ; and while the basement windows were broken, they were protected by iron grillwork.
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There doorbell rings which she answers where Doc and Sprocket enter the house where they have rented the farm for the holidays wanting to spend a nice quiet Christmas in the country.
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There had been something sinister about him that warned me against him, -- I had never felt that way about any other boy, -- but when he uttered his name on the telephone I had forgotten this and I was glad to do what he asked of me.
There were 4. 668 million land telephone lines in use in Belgium in 2007, a slight decrease on the 4. 769 million in use in 1997.
There are also usually " upstream " channels on the cable, to send data from the customer box to the cable headend, for advanced features such as requesting pay-per-view shows, cable internet access, and cable telephone service.
There are some 75, 000 ( 2005 ) fixed line telephone lines in Mali, far outstripped by 869, 600 ( 2005 ) mobile cellular phone lines.
There are two major mobile telephone operators, Ikatel ( a subsidiary of Sonatel, of Senegal ) and Malitel ( a subsidiary of SOTELMA, the state owned telecommunications company ).
There are two landline telephone companies in Mongolia: Mongolia Telecom Company ( MTC ) and the Mongolian Railway Authority.
There were numerous competing inventions, and 26 patents of dials, push-buttons, and similar mechanisms for signalling which telephone subscriber was wanted by a caller were issued prior to 1891.
There are presently around 25 mainlines per 1, 000 persons, and the local availability of telephone lines ( tele-density ) is higher than in neighboring countries ; three times greater than in adjacent Ethiopia.
There are water waves on the ocean surface ; gamma waves and light waves emitted by the Sun ; microwaves used in microwave ovens and in radar equipment ; radio waves broadcast by radio stations ; and sound waves generated by radio receivers, telephone handsets and living creatures ( as voices ), to mention only a few wave phenomena.
There are any number of specific classifications but all lie on a continuum between the dumb network ( e. g., Internet ) and the intelligent computer network ( e. g., the telephone network ).
There are all communicated with face to face interaction but with telephone usage it is filtered out.
* There are several new telecommunications relay service technologies including IP Relay and captioned telephone technologies.
There is no rail network, efforts to upgrade airport facilities have languished, and telephone and Internet usage and capabilities are limited.
There are about as many cellular phone subscription as there are inhabitants in the country ( 4. 7 million ), while the number of fixed line telephone subscriptions is declining towards 2 million.
There are three main types of home shopping: mail or telephone ordering from catalogs ; telephone ordering in response to advertisements in print and electronic media ( such as periodicals, TV and radio ); and online shopping.
There were around 33, 000 phones across Australia, with 7, 502 telephone subscribers in inner Sydney and 4, 800 in the Melbourne central business district.
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