1.   Customers dial up the central computer, effectively making a telephone link via a modem between their terminal and the computer housing the databases.

2.   Teletext uses a broadcast signal to communicate information to specially adapted television sets, while Prestel uses a telephone link to allow access to information.

3.   It meant no electricity and no telephone link with the outside world but there was no structural damage.

4.   A free telephone link in the kiosk enables visitors to book hotels, theater, concert and movie tickets or even to shop or to order flowers.

5.   A telephone link between the two sides, installed in more peaceful times to help contain local skirmishes, has fallen into disuse.

6.   All but a few telephone links with the Serb-held areas of Bosnia have been cut.

7.   Branches that are under-used may be closed, while others will become automated banking outlets with tellers replaced by cash machines and telephone links to bankers.

8.   Classes are broadcast live, and students can speak directly to instructors over a telephone conference link.

9.   Dorfschenke, in Germany, has four terminals and the same, relatively slow telephone links available to home Internet users.