“Das Pferd frisst keinen Gurkensalat!” (The horse doesn’t eat cucumber salad) – with this historic sentence, Philipp Reiss demonstrated the first telephone to his listeners on October 26, 1861. 150 years on, his invention has become indispensable to most people. To mark its 150th birthday, TNS Infratest has asked the German people what role the telephone plays in their lives today.

