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Thailand has discontinued use of its telegraph service. Newley Purnell says this reflects “things slipping into extinction.”
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I think that probably is a good thing since we have so many other means of communication.
Have to agre with Bill and say that this is no big loss in the world of Web 2.0. I can’t ever see people using any other means of communication other than the internet.