31.   China for the first time allowed foreign companies to invest in fixed-line telephone networks, as officials try to promote competition in the telecommunications industry.

32.   Communication between the terminals takes place over a telephone network.

33.   Copper wires like those used to connect most homes to the telephone network also used to be employed for regional and transcontinental networks.

34.   Current telephone networks are not as efficient as they are reliable.

35.   Corporate clients will likely ask NTT to supply both domestic and international telephone networks, he said.

36.   Data already travels at very high speed over most of the telephone network.

37.   CTC was fined for alleged delays in connecting its telephone network to services provided by the rival CMET SA.

38.   E.biscom would build fiber optic networks in major Italian cities that would be independent of the telephone network and run directly into individual buildings.

39.   Either way, those calls originate and terminate over the local telephone networks.

40.   Enderle organized his neighbors into a telephone network, each one calling five or six others, until everyone was reassured and the uproar was quieted.