In addition, Northern Telecom, which also makes phone equipment, agreed to provide $40 million in financing.

Also somewhere nearby, he supposed, would be water tanks and pumps, and of course the phone equipment.

AT&T, which no longer makes phone equipment, has stopped financing charities in foreign countries where it had manufacturing plants.

All the phone equipment was missing, even the antennas, high-capacity batteries, and his pager.

Maybe the new phone equipment will improve service, but for now, many note, lines get tangled even more than normal.

In the beginning, TV stations would simply build their own communication systems using old phone equipment.

It gives interest-bearing loans to people in those areas to buy Internet connectivity products like solar panels and phone equipment.

Around this time, the telephone industry was rocked by a Supreme Court ruling that allowed customers to attach their own phone equipment to company lines.

However, revenues from leased equipment dropped 25.3 percent in the quarter because more customers decided to buy rather than rent phone equipment, the company said.

Each company buys its phone equipment and is liable for replacing stolen parts.