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Identifier: belltvol20elephonemag00amerrich (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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164 Bell Telephone Magazine AUGUST DISTRIBUTION OF THE WORLDS TELEPHONES January 1.1940 GI^EAT BRITAIN y / GERMANY FRANCE ALL OTHERCOUNTRIES CANADA
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ALL OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES in Europe, whereas 99 per cent of allthe telephones in the Western Hemi-sphere are in private hands. During 1939, more than 30 billionlocal and long distance telephone callswere completed in the United Statesand it has been estimated, from rec-ords covering the majority of foreigntelephone systems, that some 60 bil-lion calls were completed throughoutthe world at large, or about 28 tele-phone conversations per capita. Forthe United States alone, however, theper capita calling rate was 231.5,which means that there were onlyabout 15 calls per capita outside theUnited States. It will be seen from the varioustables and charts reproduced herewiththat the United States—with nearlyone half of the worlds telephones on January 1, 1940, but with only six percent of its population—has retainedits supremacy as the worlds leadingcountry in the field of voice communi-cation. In point of absolute size, the nextlargest national telephone system isthat of the German Re

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