It will then automatically dial into the conference call at the right time and simultaneously place a call to your phone, bridging the two calls.
Cables plugged into headset jacks on walkie-talkies and phones bridge the devices into the Codespear system, through which public safety officers can communicate with each other.
This pure form is still rare, however, because most people still use traditional phones, which requires people calling from a PC or an internet phone to "bridge" over to the phone network.
In brief, over the last 20 years, the Internet and cell phones which bridge the Digital Divide have reshaped our world through electronic ("e-") and mobile ("m-") applications or services.
A teen-ager who had taken cover at the base of the bridge phoned 911 on his cell phone; as sirens approached, Johnson faded back into the woods.
There are two types of phone calls that bridge the realms of life and work.
The cell phone was the bridge between that home and Mrs. Jaffe's office.
The owner of our ship, Mads Petersen, was in daily e-mail contact with our captain, and one time he called the satellite phone on the bridge to say hello.
The man said he was speaking on a satellite phone from the bridge of the hijacked Ukrainian ship, and to prove it, he handed the phone to another man who said he was the captain.
Spying on an allied head of government's private mobile phone is a bridge too far in espionage, especially when combined with previous revelations of mass surveillance, not to mention the shocking realization of how compromised systems provided by ubiquitous American cyber firms have proved to be.
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