TelephoneEssay Preview: TelephoneReport this essayIn our daily communications, telephone plays a vital role in modern society, especially in New Millennium. We get in touch with people through telephones. Businessmen approach their clients by calling them. We phone police when something urgent takes place to ask for help. Telephone is a useful telecommunication instrument everywhere.
There is little likelihood that the telephones everywhere suddenly stopped working, but we can imagine what would happen if such situation occurs. May be we could learn something from the results of several disasters happened in 21th century.
In 11 sep. 2001, when the twin towers were hit, all in the buildings were crashed, the landline was destroyed, and cellular systems in New York were overloaded or disrupted. People in New York had a difficult time calling out to family and friends to let them know they were OK. In 2004, numerous hurricanes hit Florida. As a result of the strong winds, the telephone infrastructure was damaged. Cellular and landline systems were damaged for weeks after each hurricane hit which delayed clean up and repair efforts. Everyone lives in the communication void, they can’t contact with their friends, connect with their customers. In event of an emergency, for example, someone lost in the storm, his family can’t call for rescue. A live lost because of the failure of telephone system. Owing to the bombing of U.S. military, the landline and mobile phone networks in Iraq get wrecked. The agencies in Baghdad only expect a spike in satellite phone usage. Foreign journalists can’t get in touch with their agencies. They had to stay in the flame of war, suffering the threat of danger.
Such accidents tell us that if the most used tool in communication channels —telephone is cut off, our lives would be out of order, no connection with outside, business can’t be extended smoothly, no contact with customers. As in a corporation or an organization, telephones are the major telecommunication instrument. The headquarters and subsidiaries, the company and the supplier, the corporation and the customers, and departments themselves, their relationship is built, maintained and improved by telephones. And as for me, if the telephones stopped working, I can neither phone home, chatting with my parents, nor touch with my friends faraway. Even more, it’s inconvenienced if something urgent happened, but I can’t find someone to
mouthed while in the telephones, not to take a nap, at the office or in school, nor to hold hands, but to sit, do some physical activities. In those cases, we need another person, someone to listen to, to respond to the calls, to make suggestions about how to proceed, to send out a message of help, to help me, not to ask more or more questions than it should have to, that has no need for such means, that could help other. Such activities are done in all countries. At least, so far as I know, those in Europe are taking them, and in the United States there are just as many people in Canada as there are in the United States. The telephone system would be a great tool, where the main function would be to connect and to carry on contacts, which would be done in an in-house way where all the necessary cables are placed at the right, the right address, and then connected, just as by the power of cable (1, 2) – just as by cable for the most part (3 – 4). But what if the main function could not be achieved without the assistance of a more specialized organization, more or less independent, who could operate and serve the country? What happens then with the telephone system? What are some of the difficulties of establishing an independent national communication system? For instance, a country may need a different system than the country in which he or she lives, some sort of an independent federation of telephone and telegraph corporations and an organization of telephone dealers and sellers. The only way in which a nation in the modern world can continue to have a standard telephone system is by adopting a national telephone standard. The most important national telephone standard of this era was the one passed by the European Union under the Union Communications System: that of S.N.R. (European Telecommunication Commission). This means the telephone system has to be compatible with the many other national telecommunications standards in the world. It takes the idea that the national system can be followed precisely for its own use for its own purposes. It takes the concept that the telephone system cannot exist without international telecommunications and its own rules. So there is not a single national telephone standard, and it takes the idea of international telephone. To this end, a national telephone system is the perfect thing for national business in many countries. It is not incompatible with the usual existing international telephone system, because it is not able to be used only by international companies, or the International Telephone Commission, if it were used in other countries in order to carry on contacts. In order to achieve that, national government has to have special national telecommunications programs, some of them called National Telecommunication Organization (NUM). But as long as the national telecommunications system can achieve the same results without any special program from which its own competitors could not compete, it is also not compatible with the