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To: TimF who wrote (1766)	7/2/2003 9:54:55 PM
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Bangladeshi man gets phone after 27 year wait A Bangladeshi man has had a phone installed - 27 years after he applied for it. Mohammad Ismail applied and paid the connection fee for a telephone line in May 1976, according to the Manabzamin newspaper. The state-run Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board lost his application, and his repeated requests for the line went unheeded. But, the telephone company suddenly 'found' his application after Bengali-tabloid reported his plight last week. The company promptly connected the line in his Dhaka home on Saturday and even threw in a free telephone. "I am so happy. But I am a bit sad, also. When I applied, I was a young man of 33 and had dreams about owning my own telephone. Now all those dreams are gone. My children will use the phone now," Ismail told the newspaper. A phone company official told the Manabzamin they had not previously been able to give Ismail a telephone connection because of technical reasons. Less than 10% of Bangladesh's 130 million people have telephones, mostly due to insufficient phone lines, costly fees and often cumbersome connection procedures. ananova.com