Telephones

When you tell a phone number from outside a town you usually have to dial an area or city code before the actual number.

The area code for London for example is 207 if you call for within the UK.

If you call from another country you must to put that country's code in before the city code.

Companies usually have ISDN connections so their telephone number can have much extensions.

Each extension is assigned to one person in the organisation which make it possible to call that person direct.

As you know, we are now leaving in a fast moving world — that of telecommunications.

Almost everybody today has their own mobiles phone or 'cell phone' as people in North America call it.

In Germany those phones are called 'Handy' and many German in fact think that this is the English word for 'mobile phone'.

Soon will come a time when you want be able to do a lot of different things with your mobile phone.

Today you can already make phone calls, take photographs, send text messages and download music file.