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Telegate

Telegate is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Telegate rather than just read about it. In short: Telegate is a communications company based in Martinsried, Germany, providing directory assistance services to callers in Germany, Spain, and Italy. Telegate was founded in August 1996 and began offering services in its home country Germany in December of the same year, initially through the number 01199, and later through the number 11880.

Key takeaways

Telegate belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Telegate to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Telegate from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Telegate is a communications company based in Martinsried, Germany, providing directory assistance services to callers in Germany, Spain, and Italy. Telegate was founded in August 1996 and began offering services in its home country Germany in December of the same year, initially through the number 01199, and later through the number 11880. The company is publicly held, listed on the Neuer Markt of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange beginning on April 22, 1999.

Besides providing services in Germany, Italy and Spain, Telegate was formerly a provider of directory assistance services in the United Kingdom and the United States. Telegate's UK operation was sold to Croftacre Holdings Ltd in September 2004, originally named 118866 Ltd. and later operating as RingTrue Solutions before winding-up in 2008. Telegate entered the US market in 2000 through its purchase of CFW Information Services, formerly a subsidiary of CFW Communications. Telegate closed the former CFW call centers in 2001 and 2002, before withdrawing from the US market entirely. Since August 2016, the company is called 11880 Solutions. Meanwhile, it no longer operates in international markets, but only in Germany.

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Telegate

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Telegate claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Telegate before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Telegate ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Telegate

In research: Telegate appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Telegate in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Telegate is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Telecommunications companies of Germany, Telecommunications company stubs, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Telegate outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Telegate in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Telegate means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Telegate out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Telegate in simple terms?

Why does Telegate matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Telegate?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Telegate.