11.   Existing mobile phone systems only connect a few countries.

12.   Sri Lanka wants the system to connect people in remote places where installing copper wires would be costly, Tadiran spokesman Haim Fishler said.

13.   The electronic data interchange system electronically connects the terminal with the customs office, some foreign exchange banks and importers.

14.   The structure cabling system also connects to a central facility that is linked to each residential college.

15.   The system will connect customs, taxation, shipping, banking and insurance institutions, the paper said.

16.   The structured cabling system also connects to a central facility that connects to each residential college.

17.   Visser said Friday that a private satellite alarm communications system would soon connect farmers, a special rural reaction unit, police and neighbors.