It's now a "global village" where countries are only seconds away by fax or phone or satellite link.
现在它是一个“地球村”，通过传真、电话或卫星连接，国家之间只有几秒钟的距离。
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Facebook promised the European commission then that it would not linkphone numbers to Facebook identities, but it broke the promise almost as soon as the deal went through.
当时，脸书向欧盟委员会承诺不会将电话号码与脸书用户的身份信息绑定，但交易达成一致，脸书就食言了。
3
On the other end of the spectrum, Germany found no link at all between cell phone use and cancer.