Mobile phones are much more convenient than the fixed phones.

移动电话比固定电话方便得多。

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Mobile phones communicate by transmitting radio waves through a network of fixed antennas called base stations.

移动电话通信通过一个称为基站的固定天线网络发射无线电波。

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As an example, mobile phones have become an important complement and often substitutes for fixed line phones.

举例来说，移动电话已成为固话的补充，甚至通常作为替代品。

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Since they were disbanded 15 years ago, Brazil has installed 40m fixed phones and now has 174m registered mobiles.

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The company now has more than 67, 000 phones in distribution worldwide, including 12, 800 fixed phones, many of which are typically used on boats and in remote buildings.

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But customers of Gilat Satellite Networks of Israel are already buying fixed phones tied to geostationary satellites (which hover 38, 000 kilometers above the earth, versus 1, 350 kilometers for Globalstar).

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