Telephone

In 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