Sentence examples for instead of telephone from inspiring English sources

They are steering ever greater numbers to ATMs instead of tellers, websites instead of telephone hotlines and automated checkouts instead of manned registers.

At least three other call centers are expected to open in Accra later this year, all relying on Internet telephony instead of telephone carriers.

The reasons given included that they had turned up at the agreed place and time and no-one was there, that they were not contacted about starting a course, that sessions had been cancelled, or that they had been put into an inappropriate form of training (group therapy instead of telephone counselling), as seen in the quote below.

Shoppers would fetch return labels from a retailer's Web site, instead of telephoning or using return labels often sent in packages.

Insurance companies expect to reap enormous savings if they can persuade hundreds of thousands of doctors to use computers and the Internet instead of telephones and paper to submit claims for reimbursement, check on patients' coverage and obtain routine approvals for tests and referrals to specialists.

Communication has speeded up -- when one of Marjorie's books is taken by the Book-of-the-Month Club, Max writes her the news, instead of telephoning -- but book production has slowed down; in the 30's, books were routinely published three or four months after a manuscript was completed.

We e-mail instead of telephoning.

The racist rants came despite suspicions from the men that the flat was under surveillance and they always used a public phone box instead of a telephone inside of the flat.

Mr. Odabashian is one of a growing number of consumers who receive telephone service from a cable company instead of a telephone carrier.

In the 3 cases where participants could not be contacted or chose not to complete the telephone interview, migraine frequency data from patient records was used instead of the telephone survey data.

– free p2p calling via a "soft phone" (software on your computer instead of a telephone), with up to 4 people at a time – basic text IM capabilities – file uploading – Skype-Out (call any phone number, for a small per minute charge) – Skype-In (assign your skype account a phone number, allowing any phone to call you on your computer) – voicemail.