In contrast, try dialling a decades-old telephone number, and see how far you get.
Telefonica is clearly eager to use these deals as a way to broaden its service offering beyond plain old telephone service.
And texting has become far easier, even with much-bemoaned touch screens, than using the old telephone keypad with multiple letters per button.
The old telephone network is just the latest victim of the Internet revolution, which began slowly but which has accelerated in the last decade.
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Take an old telephone company: The CEO knows that his future lies with fiber optics and the Internet, not with copper wires and circuit switches.
PCCW's initial stock fall is partly derived from the fact that analysts now have a facility to be able to read the stock, a century-old telephone company.
Each customer site links its own internal network to the Telseon system through a single dedicated switch, a far simpler route than the clumsy path of the old telephone system.
Because it has such little infrastructure in place--dirt roads, old copper telephone lines, etc.
Still, it was an annual rite of passage, sort of like old fashioned telephone books.
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Admittedly, London's dwindling fleet of old-fashioned double-decker red Routemaster buses, like the black taxis and old red telephone boxes, are a distinctive and attractive feature of the city's landscape.
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EarthLink will lease the old copper telephone wires connecting homes to their local telephone company, converting calls into packets of data at that point before sending them over telecommunications wholesaler Covad 's (otc: COVD - news - people ) national data network.
Powell speculates that old-school telephone companies and local TV broadcasters have a limited future, if any.
Think about it in the context of the age-old game of Telephone where you whisper a sentence around the table until it is distorted into something indistinguishable.
Although he was successful in getting the Egyptian carriers to cooperate, some Egyptians still managed to get online by making international data calls from old-fashioned telephone modem lines.
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Last month, it said it would fold its disappointing four-year-old direct (telephone and Internet) arm, Bank 24, into its branch business, and relaunch it as Deutsche Bank 24.
This is much like the old model of telephone bidders, with the difference that the remote participants can see the room, examine each item and lurk, rather than bid.
Jenkins also has taken over telco hotels in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, where more than 100 long-haul carriers connect with local fiber lines in so-called meet-me rooms similar to old-fashioned telephone switchboards.
It would have been nice to have learned more about the dispute involving the now somewhat old-fashioned telephone means of order entry but, alas, Rip Van Winkle appears to have arisen from his slumber too late.
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That's a bit like poor old Philippines Long Distance Telephone, who gets hosed every time someone logs onto Pldt.com, which turns out to be Notquitepldt.com.
The new console looks like it has been constructed from items out of a junk shop, including an old typewriter, a telephone, pressure gauges and a Morse code machine.
He bets that corporations will ditch their old wire-line telephone hardware and buy new phones that send and receive calls over the same broadband connections that hook desktop computers to the internet.
When it comes to voice services, the regulatory obligation that is now under scrutiny is the duty to provide universal telephone service over the old copper network.
Police Chief Cathy Lanier and others have hailed Johnson as a hero, WJLA reported the 46-year-old told the station in a telephone interview that he was simply doing his job and is not comfortable being described as a hero.
On a day when thousands of people around the world are preparing to explain how a web cam works to elderly relatives in a vain attempt to wish them a merry Christmas, some may just go straight to the old-fashioned use of a telephone.
Mrs Saldanha, a 46-year-old wife and mother of two, transferred the telephone call on 4 December to a colleague who then gave a detailed update on the duchess's condition to the hoaxers.
Look at the old mandates that require the firms we used to call telephone companies to maintain their copper-wire phone lines and voice-call switching infrastructure.
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The court heard computer records showed searches made that evening on the NHS Direct website for "a three-year-old hurting head and being sick", and a telephone call to a local surgery that was closed.
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