. Bell telephone magazine . 00 (T) lO 00 -H Tjt -- VO Ov O 3 S 2 %o o c cur- < 2 rt 3 3 u u u rt o D>0 gyDO < 3 3 rt O ^ S •75 oP 191 BELL TELEPHONE QUARTERLY per 100 population is far below that of the large Occidentalcountries. Similarly, Argentina, with a development of , holds its lead by a wide margin over all the other SouthAmerican countries in point of telephone density. The figures indicate that the type of ownership and opera-tion of national telephone systems is probably of considerablesignificance as regards the extent to which telephone serviceis developed. T
. Bell telephone magazine . 00 (T) lO 00 -H Tjt -- VO Ov O 3 S 2 %o o c cur- < 2 rt 3 3 u u u rt o D>0 gyDO < 3 3 rt O ^ S •75 oP 191 BELL TELEPHONE QUARTERLY per 100 population is far below that of the large Occidentalcountries. Similarly, Argentina, with a development of , holds its lead by a wide margin over all the other SouthAmerican countries in point of telephone density. The figures indicate that the type of ownership and opera-tion of national telephone systems is probably of considerablesignificance as regards the extent to which telephone serviceis developed. Thus, the United States, where the telephonesystem is all privately owned and operated, has the highestdevelopment of all the countries of the world. The next bestdeveloped country, Canada, has 84 per cent of all its telephones OWNERSHIP OF THE WORLDS TELEPHONESJanuary %. under private management; while in Denmark, fourth on thelist, about 96 per cent of the telephones are operated by privatecompanies. In striking contrast to the high telephone densityof these three countries is the relatively poor telephone de-velopment of the three major European nations. Great Britain,Germany, and France, where in each case the service is op-erated exclusively by the government. Telephones in Large and Small Communities It is obvious that no system of communication may be con-sidered to be wholly satisfactory unless it is extensively avail-able, not only to the well populated sections of the country,but also to the more sparsely settled regions. It is, therefore, 192
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