Telephone
There are 750,000 landlines, and 2,916,000 mobile telephones in use in Lebanon. The telephone system experienced severe damage during the civil war, but was completely rebuilt and revamped. The systems that provide the infrastructure for the telephone network are, domestically, microwave radio relay stations and cables, and internationally, two Intelsat satellite-earth stations, a coaxial cable, and microwave radio relay station to Syria and three submarine coaxial cables.
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Famous quotes containing the word telephone:
“The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
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evil can seep out of the receiver
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—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)