10 Facts About the Telecommunications Industry, from Richard Horowitz
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2. It took a year to connect the first telephone line between New York and San Francisco. This line was comprised of 14,000 miles of copper wire and needed 130,000 telephone poles in order to successfully connect the two cities.
4. The longest phone cable in the world is a submarine cable called Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe, or FLAG.
8. The busiest organization in the world is the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. The Pentagon has 34,500 lines and gets 1 million calls a day. The busiest day occurred on the 59th Anniversary of D-Day, when they received over 1.5 million phone calls.