E-mail is cheaper than faxes and international telephone calls.

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Mr Sharon, visiting China and Mongolia, kept up a constant stream of telephone calls and faxes to Jerusalem expounding on the dangers of the 13% pullback from the West Bank proposed by the Americans.

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This includes the bizarre mailings you get from your health plan that say "this is not a bill" and you just throw them away, not to mention all the unnecessary telephone calls and faxes your doctors and hospitals need to make to get paid.

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The telephone-equipment companies want voice dialling (useful in cars), automatic call-centres, computerised operator-services and messaging that allows users to pick up and send e-mails and faxes on an ordinary telephone anywhere in the world.

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But in the seven months it was up there, the little satellite synchronised the time between the continents, handled live pictures, audio, telephone calls, and faxes, across the Atlantic, ushering in the promise of a connected age.

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In the past four years demand for 212 numbers has more than tripled thanks to second lines, modems, faxes and the emergence of about 30 small competitors which, says Nynex, buy telephone numbers in blocks of 10, 000.

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For example, if a flight is delayed for more than two hours, the airline is required to provide passengers with meals and refreshments, as well as two free telephone calls, e-mails or faxes.

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For example, for flights of 1, 500km or less where there is a delay of more than two hours, a passenger should be given meals and refreshments, along with two free telephone calls, e-mails, telexes or faxes.

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