None of the telephones are working.

So we could do that for telephones.

In Liberia there are no landline telephones.

We went from almost no Afghans having mobile telephones during the Taliban to a situation where, almost overnight, three million Afghans had mobile telephones.

Telephones, infrastructures do not guarantee you economic growth.

Country 2, that has fewer telephones, is China.

After the country reported very impressive statistics on telephones, the country collapsed.

You know, when I grew up in India, telephones were a rarity.

The vast rural areas, where 100 million people lived, there were no telephones.

Country 1 has more telephones, and Country 1 has a longer system of railways.

All locations identified by the police were public telephones in the city of Beirut.

There were a lot of reasons people told me why we don't have enough telephones.

Actually the country with more telephones is the Soviet Union, and the data referred to 1989.

SOS telephones for victims of violence function in Sarajevo, Banja Luka, Modriča and Prijedor for now.

And if that's the case, then the question is how many telephones did we have at that time?

I'm not talking about designing telephones that look like that, and I'm not looking at designing architecture like that.

There have been several instances of cellular telephones ringing in the Hall while the meeting has been in progress.

Ultimately, this system has allowed Chile to significantly increase the number of household telephones with a minimum level of subsidies.

The new president, Felipe Calderón, has spoken of the need to break up Mexico s monopolies. Where will he start, telephones or tortillas?

The application of information and communication technologies (ICTs) depends on telecommunications systems, including hardware such as telephones, cable, satellites, and broadband networks.

He said, The explorers of 2012, if there is anything left to explore, will no doubt carry pocket wireless telephones fitted with wireless telescopes.

They did not benefit from oil revenues from their ancestral land, and lacked basic services such as electricity, telephones, schools, hospitals and health clinics.

The very first landline telephones, the inventors thought that they would be used for people to listen in to live performances from West End theaters.

A coffee snack bar with lounge furniture, telephones and photocopying facilities at participants' expense will be located in the Plaza for the use of delegates.

I therefore strongly urge members to turn off their cellular telephones or to keep them in silent mode while they are in the General Assembly Hall.

Participants are also kindly requested to note that mobile telephones should be either switched off or switched to Silent mode during the entire proceedings of the Congress.

The reason as representatives may guess is that there have been some problems with the electrical circuits in the building, which has led to computers and telephones not working.

Since other facilities, such as mobile telephones, are usually provided through private international dealings, the possibility of allowing private firms in Thailand to join the Iridium programme and provide services is being considered.

If you know nothing about China and the Soviet Union other than the fact about their telephones, you would have made a poor prediction about their economic growth in the next two decades.

(c) Developing the means of communication and of computer science, including new mobile paid radio telephones and electronic cards for them, large ground based antenna systems for communications and television broadcasting and river navigation systems

Where it would be more economical to do so, two way radio telephones would be used to link villages or mobile units to local clinics, which in turn would be linked to a regional centre via satellite.

But you know, they have, after all, evolved in a country without telephones, so they are decentralized. I mean, of course there might be other good reasons, but this was one of the reasons they had to be.

Some observers believe that this interconnectivity has now, after a quarter century, made the PC obsolete. There are more specialized applications of computing and information technology in smart machines and mobile telephones, whose defining characteristic is that they communicate with each other.

Altered, forged or stolen documents such as passports, identity cards and driving licences are frequently used to facilitate terrorist activity at a multitude of levels, for example to open bank accounts, rent property, activate mobile telephones and utilities, and to facilitate travel.

Identification, location and further contacts related to the ring of prepaid telephone cards, including eight significant telephone numbers and 10 mobile telephones, which are believed to have been used to organize surveillance of Mr. Hariri and carry out the assassination (see S 2005 662, paras. 121 and 148 152)

It came from about 300 years ago, and it came from the last and the biggest of the empires on this planet. The British Empire Imagine trying to run the show, trying to run the entire planet, without computers, without telephones, with data handwritten on pieces of paper, and traveling by ships.

Yet, not all of them, especially not the least developed countries in Africa, have reaped potential benefits from trade, though in some of them liberalization in the services sector (e.g. telecommunications and electricity) improved foreign direct investment inflows and even stimulated the development of microenterprises in some instances (e.g. mobile telephones in Bangladesh).

To date, more than seven tons of such arms have been seized. They include AK 47, M 16 and M 14 rifles, Low missiles, RPG 7 grenade launchers, 60 and 30 calibre M 50 machine guns, large amounts of ammunition, satellite telephones, grenades with various levels of firepower and other military supplies.

The spread of mobile telephony has revolutionized ordinary life in a continent with the world's lowest penetration of fixed line telephones. Satellite links have vastly improved Internet access, and a new undersea cable that runs along the coast of Africa (SAT 3) promises to improve and reduce the cost of all types of communications.

One of the reasons is a lot of their telephones use IP protocol and use things like Skype and so on that go through the Internet right now, and so in fact we're becoming dependent on it for more and more different things, like when you take off from LAX, you're really not thinking you're using the Internet.

It is easy to forget that, years ago, telephones had no buttons or dial you had to pick up the handset and ask an operator to make the connection. The telephone dial didn t appear until 1919, when the first group of self designated user interface scientists at Western Electric considered what the most intuitive form should be.

This will certainly become even more important when developments that improve Internet availability on mobile telephones, and the advent of 4G services, make access to social media more universal. Though only 12 of Indians use computers, more than 70 have mobile phones, but very few currently find it easy or affordable to use them to access social media.

And the Then Communications Minister replied in a lordly manner that in a developing country communications are a luxury, not a right, that the government had no obligation to provide better service, and if the honorable Member wasn't satisfied with his telephone, could he please return it, since there was an eight year long waiting list for telephones in India.

Gordon argues that the major technological changes that raised the standard of living in the past are much more important than anything that can happen in the future. He points to examples such as indoor plumbing, automobiles, electricity, telephones, and central heating, and argues that all of them were much more important for living standards than recent innovations like the internet and mobile phones.

The result is a trap in which poverty causes bad governance and bad governance causes poverty a two way spiral downward that can lead to such extreme deprivation that the government, lacking computers, telephones, information systems, and trained civil servants, couldn t function honestly even if it wanted to. The end result can be collapse into a kind of anarchy, as in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Somalia.