As far as the phone stuff is concerned, essentially yes.
The first digit being a "1" for long distance is only true in the US. When you come up with the phone system, of course you give your country the first country code.
This is idiocy. The article is talking about Q3 sales numbers, not "in use" not "deployed" not anything other than Q3.
Why are people extrapolating that to installed/user base numbers?
Media let it die? Romney made an argument out of it and it was in the news cycle constantly.
I don't know what he hoped to prove by it, really. Romney never said that he would have done anything differently.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of money? -- Ayn Rand