The phrase "a time when telephone" is not correct as it is incomplete and lacks clarity.
It could be used in a context discussing historical periods related to the use of telephones, but it needs to be completed for proper usage.
Example: "There was a time when telephone communication was the primary means of long-distance contact."
Alternatives: "an era when telephones" or "a period when telephone".
After reading the talk story about pay station telephones in which it was said coins fall into a locked box and are later collected, the writer recalls a time when the telephone company was defrauded on a grand scale.
At the time, when telephones were functional objects fixed to the kitchen wall or tethered to your desk, news was consumed on paper, music came on CDs and you watched television on a large box in your living room, it wasn't so naive.
Pacific Century borrowed $13 billion to finance its bid, meaning the merged company will have a heavy debt load at a time when its core telephone business is under attack.
And yet such shiny child-size phones are stirring some parental and government unease, particularly at a time when the mobile telephone industry is reaching deeper into saturated markets to tap customers with chubby hands capable of cradling both dolls and phones.
The 25-year-old also recalled a time when the diva telephoned her directly without any warning.
But while consumers seem to have no problem with cookies, profiles and other online tools that let e-commerce sites know who they are and how they shop, some bristle at the physical version, at a time when government surveillance — of telephone calls, Internet activity and Postal Service deliveries — is front and center because of the leaks by Edward J. Snowden.
She lived from a time when motor cars and telephones were uncommon into an era of supersonic air travel and email.
I remember a time when the only phone area code was 416 (I also remember a time when Bell telephone booths were ubiquitous and I had a Telus flip phone, but I digress).
One reason for the press' inaccurate projection was that polls were conducted primarily by telephone, in a time when many people, including much of Truman's populist base, did not own a telephone.
They grew up in a time when we used rotary dial telephones and communicated using manual typewriters and placing letters in the mail.
