"New York City's public pay telephone network has incredible potential, " said Chief Information and Innovation Officer Merchant.
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It transmits the signal via the cellular telephone network to a computer where it can be interpreted.
There are good parts of the world where there simply never will be a universal landline telephone network.
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If the telephone network in New York State were a stand-alone business, it would already be in bankruptcy.
The deal would transform the relatively primitive Soviet telephone network into one utilizing high technology fiber-optic cable and switching equipment.
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Before personal computers, corporate local area networks, and a global digital telephone network, the Internet was just a laboratory experiment.
And, one hopes, lessons learned from the earlier effort will improve an eventual plan for a similar transition for the telephone network.
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Then too, this week Lebanon's An Nahar newspaper reported that Hizbullah was moving to extend its independent telephone network to the south.
Within weeks, 5SC was experimenting with 'simultaneous broadcasting' the linking of radio stations throughout the country using the Post Office telephone network.
Rogers continued to expand his cable business quickly through the 1970s and in 1985 began to operate a national cellular telephone network in Canada.
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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It has a 30-year contract to manage the government's existing Luzon telephone network and permission to build an international gateway facility for overseas calls.
The practical difficulties of the North Korea's rugged terrain have in the past made efforts to build a traditional landline telephone network time consuming and expensive.
As the emergency services struggle to respond, the terrorists strike again, shutting down the telephone network and electrical power grid with just a few mouse clicks.
But the act's remit extends only to the public telephone network, which was defined in a recent House of Lords judgment as ending at the wall socket.
Worse, the delays have meant that Poland has the worst telephone network in Central Europe, with proportionately around half as many telephone lines as the Czechs or Hungarians.
Meyer created a communications system that works on any telephone network and can be accessed on any mobile handset, PC or landline phone using voice messages, e-mail or SMS text.
Meanwhile, the telephone network is usually in the hands of a state-owned (or formerly state-owned) monopoly that is reluctant to cannibalise corporate high-speed Internet access revenues by offering cheaper broadband.
The biggest is the degree of competition in the market, which governments have generally encouraged by allowing the construction of rival infrastructure to the telephone network, usually in the form of cable networks.
It was a bitter defeat for Falcone, who made billions of dollars for himself and his investors betting against subprime mortgages, only to lose much of it trying to build the next big cellular-telephone network.
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Doesn't matter what kind of device the message is going to (wireline phones, mobile phones, PDAs or computers) or whether the message has to travel over the Internet or the public switched telephone network, for example.
The college relies on the network for telephone and intercom services, video surveillance, six school-run cable channels and thermostat control.
And if you've ever wanted to seriously used a Wi-Fi network to make voice telephone calls using Voice Over Internet Protocol technology (VOIP), your network will need a feature called QOS or Quality Of Service.
Deutsche Telekom, the former telephone monopoly, owns the network but is being forced to break it up and sell it.
Likewise, traditional local and long-distance telephone service over the copper network is being displaced by better technology from cable and fiber.
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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.
The new measures now formally require anyone signing agreements to access the internet, fixed-line telephone and mobile devices to provide network service operators with "genuine identification information", known as real-name registration, Xinhua reports.
Many Facebook customers surely think of Facebook as a communications network, just like their telephone company.
Rather like text messaging on a mobile phone, data travel over spare network capacity not used by telephone calls.
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