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3 unusual facts about Telephone


General Council of the Pyrénées-Orientales

The installation requires a device from the common, power, a line and Internet ADSL .

Hello, Hawaii, How Are You?

The song refers to one of Marconi's then-new radio-oriented inventions, the Wireless Telephone, which became publicly available that year.

Téléphone

Téléphone was a French rock band formed in 1976 by Jean-Louis Aubert (singer/guitarist), Louis Bertignac (guitarist/singer), Corine Marienneau (bass/singer) and Richard Kolinka (drums).


1963 World Ice Hockey Championships

A heavy defeat by Sweden prompted President John F. Kennedy to complain about their performance in a telephone call to David Hackett.

999-9999

The story, about the deadly consequences of receiving a telephone call from the number 999-9999, is similar in premise to Final Destination or 976-EVIL.

A Music Fairy

Ahmad Haseeb uses rare music videos of Nazia and Zoheb like Disco Deewane, Boom Boom, Mujhay Chahie, Telephone Pyar & Hulla Gulla Karien Hum.

Abdul Subhan Qureshi

Police sources told The Hindu that he participated in the October,1999 SIMI conference where Sheikh Yasin, the head of the Hamas and the Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad, were among those who delivered speeches through a telephone network.

Air France Flight 8969

Balladur said over the telephone to Prime Minister of Algeria Mokdad Sifi that the French government would hold the Algerian government responsible for the outcome if it did not allow the French government to become involved in the crisis.

American Bell

Bell Telephone Company, at one time known as American Bell Telephone Company, original parent of American Telephone and Telegraph Company

Area codes 215 and 267

215 and 267 are the North American telephone area codes for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania which serve its southeast corner, including the city of Philadelphia and its northern and eastern suburbs.

Ben 10: Race Against Time

Traveling back to Bellwood, Max takes Ben and Gwen to the location of the Hands of Armageddon, guarded by the few remaining Plumbers ranging from Ms. Dalton, Mr. Hawkins the Postman (Jeff Jensen), Fire Chief Whittington (Michael Runyard), Principal White (Robert Picardo), Mrs. Carlay the Plant Caregiver, Mr. Jenyx the Telephone Company Worker, and Mr. Enguells the Sanitation Worker.

Big Book

The Big Read, a 2003 survey carried out by the BBC, with the goal of finding the "Nation's Best-loved Book" by way of a viewer vote via the Web, SMS and telephone

C-Netz

The Radio Telephone Network C (German: Funktelefonnetz-C, abbreviated as C-Netz), was a first generation analog cellular phone system deployed and operated in Germany (at first West Germany) by DeTeMobil (formerly of Deutsche Bundespost Telekom, currently Deutsche Telekom).

Capture of Owerri

The Capture of Owerri was a major victory for the Biafrans because the victory opened up telephone lines, enhanced road telecommunications, and showed that with stiff resistance Biafra could defeat Nigerian forces.

Charles E. Freeman

In September, 1973 governor Dan Walker named Freeman to the Illinois Commerce Commission, a rate regulatory agency with power over telephone, electricity and gas companies.

Chatter Telephone

In 1985, Fisher-Price offered to donate a Chatter Telephone, Rock A Stack, and Activity Center to NASA for Senator Jake Garn to play with while on the STS-51-D space shuttle mission.

Citibank Argentina

The president of Citicorp Argentina during the 1990s, H. Richard Handley, had been raised in Argentina with the chairman of Citigroup at the time, John S. Reed, and obtained his support for the bank's lucrative participation in the 1990 sale of the state telephone concern ENTel.

Demarcation

Demarcation point, in telephony, the point at which the telephone company network ends and connects with the wiring at the customer premises

Diego Alcazar

On September 2007, Jason Morgan and Carly Corinthos Jacks find her nanny Leticia's body on the floor with a telephone cord wrapped around her neck.

Economy of Equatorial Guinea

Parastatal Getesa, a joint venture with a minority ownership stake held by a French subsidiary of Orange, provides telephone service in the major cities.

Eureka, Nunavut

In the 1980s, TV audio was often connected to the telephone to feed CBC-TV news to CHAR-FM in isolated Alert.

Excise Tax Reduction Act of 1954

The United States Excise Tax Reduction Act of 1954 actually temporarily extended the 1951 excise tax increases (through March 31, 1955), but also reduced excise tax rates on, among other things, telephones, admissions, and jewelry.

Finansbank

It also launched a telephone banking system and set up an operations Center in Ümraniye, Istanbul.

First generation

1G, the first-generation of wireless telephone technology

Foundation of the Premier League

Trevor East of ITV heard Sugar on the telephone speaking to Murdoch at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London in May 1992 advising an increased bid for the television rights.

Frank Dolphin

In February 2012 Taoiseach Enda Kenny announced that RigneyDolphin would provide patient management, patient outreach and telephone services to the Cleveland Clinic.

Frontier Communications of Mondovi

Frontier Communications of Mondovi LLC is a telephone operating of Frontier Communications providing local telephone services to Mondovi, Wisconsin.

Health maintenance organization

Within a year, the Los Angeles Fire Department signed up, then the Los Angeles Police Department, then the Southern California Telephone Company (now AT&T Inc.), and more.

Hit Parader

The exclusive joint interview turned out to be simply a transcript from a Howard Stern radio show telephone interview with the duo.

ISUP

ISDN User Part or ISUP, a feature of Public Switched Telephone Networks

ITU-R 468 noise weighting

D.B.P. is Deutsche Bundespost, the German post office which provides telephone service in Germany as the GPO does in the UK.

John P. Surma

As the vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of Pennsylvania State University, Surma informed longtime Penn State football coach Joe Paterno late at night, and over the telephone, that he had been terminated without a hearing amid the media firestorm in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal.

Larry Hoover

Larry Hoover provided vocals in the form of telephone conversations on a pair of tracks from the Geto Boys' 1996 album The Resurrection; track 1: "Ghetto Prisoner," and track 14: "A Visit with Larry Hoover," specifically.

Larry Ryckman

The first major music releases using MyStudio AfterMaster HD Audio process were Janet Jackson's "Make Me" produced by Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, and Lady Gaga's multi-platinum "Telephone."

Local Insight Yellow Pages

Windstream Yellow Pages publishes directories for former Alltel wireline, as well as directories for TDS Telecom and KLM Telephone customers, as well numerous smaller independent telephone companies.

Northwestern Bell

In 1976, Northwestern Bell sold access lines in the Midland, Philip, Martin, White River, Milesville, and Hayes exchanges to Golden West Telephone, a small telephone cooperative in South Dakota.

Operation Boswilger

PLAN insurgents entered South West Africa damaging a bridge between Epali and Ondangwa, sabotaging telephone poles, mortaring the Eenhana base and a bomb was detonated at the Ongwediva Teachers Training College.

Paraa

Other famous visitors to the park were Emin Pasha, Theodore Roosevelt and the American novelist Ernest Hemingway, whose plane dipped to catch sight of the Murchison Falls, went too low and caught a telephone wire and crashed.

Pembroke, Pembrokeshire

BT's telephone exchange which serves Pembroke and Pembroke Dock is yet to be upgraded to offer either 21CN, FTTC or LLU.

Pont du Garigliano

It consists of a telephone cabin sculpted in the form of a flower by the architect Frank Gehry, with no function other than to receive calls from Sophie Calle, the artist who created the idea, in order to accompany the inauguration of the service on Tramway des Maréchaux, whose terminus is very close.

Public switched telephone network

The call is switched using a call set up protocol (usually ISUP) between the telephone exchanges under an overall routing strategy.

Quadruple play

In the UK, the merging of NTL and Virgin Mobile resulted in Virgin Media offering a "quadruple play" of cable television, broadband internet and home and mobile telephone.

Rochester Telephone Company

Frontier Telephone of Rochester, a telephone company founded in 1994 as Rochester Telephone Company, now a subsidiary of Frontier Communications

Steve London

In one Untouchables episode, he was described by series narrator Walter Winchell as "Agent Jack Rossman-- former telephone company lineman, wiretap expert, and a locksmith so talented that "Rossman could open everything but the Pearly Gates.

The Telephone Cases

Western Union advocated several more recent patent claims of Daniel Drawbaugh, Elisha Gray, Antonio Meucci and Philip Reis in a bid to invalidate Alexander Graham Bell's master and subsidiary telephone patents dating back to March 1876.

The Telephone Gambit

# The world famous scene in which Bell and Watson make their first telephone call is described in his autobiography by Thomas A. Watson some year's after Bell's death.

The Telephone Girl

The Telephone Girl is a farce musical comedy by C. M. S. McLellan (as Hugh Morton), with music by composer Gustave Kerker.

United Telecommunications

Embarq, the former local telephone division of Sprint, now part of CenturyLink

University of Sheffield Students' Union

The Union, under its obligation as part of the NUS to provide 24-hour support for students, funds Sheffield University Nightline, a telephone and email based listening and information service run by student volunteers from the University.

Widerøe Flight 710

In May 2013 the investigation board was made aware of that two passengers had each their Mobira NMT-450 mobile telephone with them on the flights.

Will Tallman

He was most recently self-employed performing computer networking and telephone line improvements for several small businesses in the Hanover and Gettysburg areas.

XS4ALL

Because international telephone connections from Egypt to the rest of the world are not blocked people can dial into the modems in Amsterdam and then log into the internet using username and password xs4all.


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