Ever since the Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell made his
first phone call on March 10, 1876, the words: “Mr. Watson -
Come here - I want to see you” became legendary. At the time,
his assistant was next door and Bell didn’t really have to dial
a number as there were only two phone sets in the world. The
expansion of telephone network in Europe started in 1881, when
the American Bell Telephone Company signed a contract with
Russia to create phone networks in St. Petersburg, Moscow,
Warsaw, Odessa, Riga and Lodz, and has not stopped since. By
1890, there were already 26,000 phones in Great Britain, and
22,000 in Germany. There were numerous attempts to create a
cable connection between the United States and Europe and in
1953 the laying of the first successful transatlantic telephone
cables began, making it possible for Americans to call Europe.
Today, Europe has a vast phone network, covering almost every
corner of the continent, with both fixed and cellular phones.
What was once Bell’s dream became rea