### Question
Can you define what wire communication facility means?


### Answer
**Wire communication facility** is defined as the following in *18 U.S.C. § 1081*:

> any and all instrumentalities, personnel, and services (among other things, the receipt, forwarding, or delivery of communications) used or useful in the transmission of writings, signs, pictures, and sounds of all kinds by aid of wire, cable, or other like connection between the points of origin and reception of such transmission

#### Citation:
  - *18 U.S.C. § 1081*
  - Heading: **PART I-CRIMES > CHAPTER 50-GAMBLING**

