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China has said goodbye to 'dial telephones' when the last such unit
was replaced with a state-of-the-art wireless unit in a remote
Tibetan village.
The old telephones, operated by rotating a disk with numbered
holes, had been used at Menzhong Village since 1974.
China Telecom, the country's leading telecom carrier, has invested
US$17 million to set telephone networks to realize that all the
nearly 700 counties and towns in Tibet are able to communicate with
outside by wireless telephone. Around 17,800 families have joined
the network since its launch in 2003.
Fixed telephone users and cell phone users in China now total to
295 million and 305 million respectively.
(CRI July 26, 2004)
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