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Telephone connection, means a telephone sub-scriber is usually connected by way of a loop (two or four wire line) to a local telephone exchange or end (central) office. End offices are in turn inter-connected via a hierarchy of switching centres. The connection medium between centres is called a trance, which consists physically of cable, coaxial cable, or microwave radio links', New Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15 Edn., Vol. 28, p. 511 [See also Telegraph Act, (13 of 1885), s. 3]; N. Krishna Devaraya v. Union of India, AIR 1996 Kant 189.

Means an apparatus, system or process for the transmission of sound or speech to a distant point; and the word 'connection' means 'the act of connecting or the state of being connected'. The expression 'telephone connection' would mean in common parlance 'connecting two telephone apparatus' so as to enable the caller to avail the speech transmission facility with a desired person, New Webster's Dictionary'.

The words 'telephone connection' would mean connecting two telephones apparatus so as to enable the caller to avail the speech transmission facility with a desired person, N. Krishna Devaraya v. Union of India, AIR 1966 Kant 189. [Telegraph Act (13 of 1885), s. 3]