Telecom quiz

In what year was the telephone invented?

• 1786

• 1867

• 1876

• 1927

The largest telecommunications carrier in the world by revenue is...

• Softbank (Japan)

• Vodafone (Europe)

• AT&T (US)

• China Mobile (China...of course)

The most downloaded smartphone app of 2018 is...

• YouTube

• Instagram

• Tik Tok

• Facebook Messenger

The fastest broadband internet in the world can be found in ___________ with average download speeds in excess of 60 Mbps.

• Sweden

• Japan

• Canada

• Singapore

The top-selling smartphone of all time was...

• Blackberry 7280

• iPhone 6/6+

• Galaxy S3

• Huawei P20

The first 'mobile' phone was made by _____________ in 1973 and weighed 2 pounds. The first call on it was made by one of their VPs to a competitor, from the sidewalk outside their building, just to let them know they had been beaten to inventing it.

• IBM

• Bell Labs

• Motorola

• Nokia

The most telephone calls ever made in a day occurred on...

• November 11, 1918 (end of WWI)

• September 11, 2001

• December 31, 1999 (Y2K)

• December 7, 1941 (Pearl Harbor attack in WWII)

The original greeting to be used when answering a telephone wasn't 'hello' - it was...

• Yes?

• State your name and business

• Ahoy?

• Whassup?

U.S. politician _______________ was the subject of significant mockery for allegedly suggesting that he/she invented (or helped to invent) the Internet.

• Hillary Clinton

• Donald Trump

• Al Gore

• George W. Bush

Netflix accounts for almost ____% of the world's internet bandwidth, globally.

• 5%

• 15%

• 25%

• 50%