by phone *
over the phone

The President read me what you wrote over the phone.

What I must do could not be done over the phone.

What she did want to say shouldn't be said over the phone.

"They tell you one thing over the phone and things go on the same way."

Over the phone she asked me how old I was.

So he wasn't going to try to have her do anything over the phone.

So, much of their relationship is over the phone, but they are close.

He gave his attention to the voice over the phone.

As they left, he heard his order being given over the phone.

If I have this right, the two had met over the phone.