Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The first telegram in Iceland was sent in 1906 to Seyðisfjörður from the Faroe Islands. [14] India: No 2013 BSNL discontinued telegram service on 15 July 2013. [15] Telegrams to foreign countries had been discontinued in May 2013. [16] Indonesia: No 2010 Pos Indonesia discontinued telegram service in 2010. [17] Iran: Yes –
A diplomatic telegram, also known as a diplomatic cable, is a confidential communication between a diplomatic mission and the foreign ministry of its parent country. [5] [6] These continue to be called telegrams or cables regardless of the method used for transmission.
Telegram also has social networking features, allowing users to post stories, create large public groups with up to 200,000 members, or share one-way updates to unlimited audiences in so-called channels. [11] Telegram was founded in 2013 by Nikolai and Pavel Durov.
Country [b] Launched Monthly active users Other metrics 1. Zoom: Zoom Video Communications United States: 2012 300 million daily participants [37] 2. Meet: Google United States: 2017 100 million daily participants [38] 3. iMessage: Apple Inc. United States: 2011 1.4 billion active Apple devices [39] 4. FaceTime: Apple Inc. United States: 2011
1 List contains only 46 countries out of at least 193 (number of UN member states)
Telegram was a key platform for sharing information and coordinating rallies during the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests. [3] Telegram was one of few communication platforms available in Belarus during the three days of internet shutdown that followed the day of the presidential election, which Belarus's president Alexander Lukashenko won amid widespread allegations of election fraud. [4]
This is a list of countries by number of telephone lines. Data are from the CIA World Factbook unless otherwise specified. [1] Location Lines Year
On this day in 1911 the first telegram was sent around the world via a commercial service from the New York Times' office to test how fast a message could travel through a dedicated cable.