He specialized in surplus wire--marine wire, building wire, thermostat wire, telephone wire.
What does this history lesson have to do with the topic of this essay, which is the transition from copper wire telephone lines to next-generation, Internet-enabled communications networks?
Maybe 60% or 70% of our staff can get off wired telephones in the next few years.
The Company also provides electronic payment services, which are applied to wired telephones, mobile phones and personal computers for online shopping, and online game services.
Thus, the system could result in rapid updates of diagnostics in developing countries, much like cellular telephones swept through the same countries much quicker than wired telephones.
For a century and a half, he said, we relied on a wired telephone system.
Partly offsetting those gains was the continued erosion of the local wired telephone business.
But Verizon's local wired telephone service is already losing ground.
NeuStar Inc., a private company in Sterling, Va., also has its roots in porting numbers for the wired telephone industry.
Now, although AT&T still provides local and long-distance wired telephone service, it considers its primary business to be wireless service.
CNN got permission from the Iraqi government to circumvent the Al Rashid Hotel switchboard and set up a four-wire telephone transmission from Baghdad to Amman, and then to Atlanta.
