BUDAPEST -- A Hungarian woman who applied for a telephone more than 50 years ago still has not received it, a Budapest daily reported.


Telephone company workers finally came to her Budapest home recently but they could not install the phone because they had run out of spare parts, Blikk said.


The newspaper said Mrs. Gyorgy Neusch, now 80, applied to then Royal Hungarian Telephone Co. for a phone line before 1944.


She eventually grew tired of fighting the system and in 1985 asked her son to continue on her behalf.


In 1991, the phone company promised him that she would receive a phone in a year and he made a payment of 60,000 forints ($560).