Short answers, pulled from the story.
Paul Julius Reuter launched a pigeon service to fly stock prices between Aachen and Brussels in 1849. This operation ran for one year until the gap in the telegraph link was closed.
English inventor Sir William Fothergill Cooke demonstrated the first commercial electrical telegraph alongside scientist Sir Charles Wheatstone on the 25th of July 1837. Samuel Morse independently developed a version that he unsuccessfully demonstrated on the 2nd of September 1837.
The first transatlantic telegraph cable was successfully completed on the 27th of July 1866 allowing transatlantic telecommunication for the first time.
Sales of mobile phones in 2005 totaled 816.6 million units shared among Asia Pacific Western Europe CEMEA North America and Latin America markets.
Two organizations merged at the 1932 Plenipotentiary Telegraph Conference and International Radiotelegraph Conference in Madrid to form the International Telecommunication Union.