. Bell telephone magazine . of the dialtype, including 10,350,864 dial tele-phones in this country. More thanhalf of the worlds dial telephoneswere placed in service during the dec-ade from 1930 to 1940, the gain indial installations having been slightlygreater than net telephone gain dur-ing this period. 1 HREE-FiFTHS of all the telephonesin the world are operated under pri-vate enterprise. It is interesting inthis connection to compare the tele-phone development in the largest pri-vate (or predominantly private) sys-tems (United States, Canada, Italy and Denmark) with that in the largestwhol
. Bell telephone magazine . of the dialtype, including 10,350,864 dial tele-phones in this country. More thanhalf of the worlds dial telephoneswere placed in service during the dec-ade from 1930 to 1940, the gain indial installations having been slightlygreater than net telephone gain dur-ing this period. 1 HREE-FiFTHS of all the telephonesin the world are operated under pri-vate enterprise. It is interesting inthis connection to compare the tele-phone development in the largest pri-vate (or predominantly private) sys-tems (United States, Canada, Italy and Denmark) with that in the largestwholly government operated systems(Germany, Great Britain, France andJapan). Private initiative has pro-duced an average of 12 telephonesper 100 people in the former coun-tries, or three times the telephonedevelopment in the largest four tele-phone systems operating under gov-ernment auspices. The bulk (nearly81 per cent) of the worlds 17,072,092government-operated telephones are OWNERSHIP OFTHE WORLDS TELEPHONES January 1,1940. 164 Bell Telephone Magazine AUGUST DISTRIBUTION OF THE WORLDS TELEPHONES January GI^EAT BRITAIN y / GERMANY FRANCE ALL OTHERCOUNTRIES CANADA
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