Mills bomb rifle grenade by attaching a metallic rod to its base. This rod-type rifle-grenade had an effective range of about 150 yards. The operating procedure was to insert the Mills bomb rod down the barrel of a standard rifle, put a special blank cartridge in the rifle's chamber, place the rifle stock on the ground, then pull the Mills bomb's safety pin, releasing the safety spoon and immediately fire the rifle. If the soldier did not launch the grenade quickly, the grenade's fuse would time out and explode. The British soon developed a simple cradle attached to the rifle's bayonet lug
Telephone numbers in Brazil with the lower ranges of "9 (91-95)", then "8", and so on. As a consequence, in the beginning "9" was more commonly assigned to mobile operators that used older technologies such as AMPS (analog), TDMA and CDMA, while for some time "8" was specifically reserved for all new GSM licenses. Now GSM is universally adopted by Brazilian mobile operators and, combined with number portability and the inclusion of a ninth digit to the left (see below), this distinction is no longer observed or meaningful. Brazilian mobile phone numbers always have nine digits now, but seven digits were usual in the