More than 25,000 telephone calls were placed from Israel to Jordan in the first four days of direct phone service between the two countries, the Bezek telecommunications corporation announced.
Bezek described the telephone traffic as “phenomenal.” It did not say how many calls were made from Jordan to Israel.
Bezek’s director-general, Yitzhak Kaul, made one of the first calls. Using a fax line, he sent a message to Adman Gnaw, his counterpart at the Jordanian telecommunications company, suggesting they hold a joint meeting in either country to discuss communications links and the development of additional services.
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