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Identifier: belltelephonemag08amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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d of calls between England andFrance, England and Germany, and England andSwitzerland. Some of the most important long distance lines inEurope cross intermediate countries and their construc-tion and operation require an international point ofview and noteworthy international co-operation. Thus,lines between England and Germany must cross eitherBelgium or Holland and the portion of each circuitlying within the boundaries of the transit country isbuilt and maintained by that country. The TelephoneAdministration of the transit country is the finalarbiter as to the number of through lines it will provide ( 309 ) Bell Telephone Qvarferlif and the rates it will charge for their use. Transitcountries, therefore, play a very fundamental part indetermining the quality of international service andgood service requires that each such country providean adequate number of lines for other countries trafficon acceptable terms. NUMBER OF CALLS PER DAY BETWEEN ENGLANDAND THE COUNTRIES INDICATED BELOW
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Figure 3 It may be said in regard to provision of plant, asdistinct from questions of operation and rates that mosttransit countries have adopted a far-sighted policy, andhave laid expensive cables freel)^, to provide for con-siderable growth of traffic passing through their ter-ritory. Indeed, the development of European inter-national traffic witnessed during the past few years has (310) Long Distance Telephony in Europe been in no small measure due to such international-miudedness. Adjustments Rate The question of rates on international calls alsopresents many complexities. On the one hand, transitcountries might naturally be expected to measure thesatisfactoriness of a rate largely in terms of the returnit nets them on their investment. Terminal countries,on the other hand, while naturally having the sameinterest in the return, also associate with rates thequestion of whether or not they are giving satisfactionto their citizens who use the service. At the same time,the transit cou

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