He is running low on all his stores and has very little fuel left, so that listening to the radio or making telephone calls to pass the time is not an option during the long hot days at sea.

BBC: Golding in the doldrums

And so we'll keep making that point in telephone calls from the podium, maybe fly a Cessna overhead with a banner -- something like that.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

The second witness statement came from a teacher who said that another one of the suspects exhibited "very peculiar behavior" the day after Holloway's disappearance, including making or receiving a lot of telephone calls, Mos said.

CNN: Prosecutor: Crime reporter's info may help Holloway case

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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For users of the free Internet services that are proliferating across Europe, the catch comes in the telephone bill, as charges for making calls to connect to these services.

ECONOMIST: Trawling for surfers

MCI notwithstanding the latter's roots as a telecoms rebel in the 1960s are old-style telephone firms, making much of their money from the slow-growing business of carrying voice calls over long distances.

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