. Bell telephone magazine . ing 1938, the total number oftelephones in the world increasedsome per cent, from 39,245,069 to41,090,347. Slightly over 53 per centof all telephones on January 1, 1939,were connected to automatic ex-changes, including 9,150,000 dial tele-phones in this country. Associatedwith the total of 41,090,347 tele-phones were 174,548,000 miles oftelephone wire, some 6,000,000 milesmore than the year before, and equiv-alent to more than 400 feet of wirefor every one of the worlds inhabi-tants. The United States, with 19,-953,263 telephones, accounted per cent of
. Bell telephone magazine . ing 1938, the total number oftelephones in the world increasedsome per cent, from 39,245,069 to41,090,347. Slightly over 53 per centof all telephones on January 1, 1939,were connected to automatic ex-changes, including 9,150,000 dial tele-phones in this country. Associatedwith the total of 41,090,347 tele-phones were 174,548,000 miles oftelephone wire, some 6,000,000 milesmore than the year before, and equiv-alent to more than 400 feet of wirefor every one of the worlds inhabi-tants. The United States, with 19,-953,263 telephones, accounted per cent of the worlds totalnumber of instruments and for cent of the worlds telephone wire,although this country has only 6 percent of the total number of people inthe world. On January 1, 1939, Europe, with4^/2 times the population of the UnitedStates, had a total of 15,305,459 tele- 212 Bell Telephone Quarterly JULY DISTRIBUTION OF THE WORLDS TELEPHONESJanuary 1,1939 QUA! BRITAIN \ / GERMANY FRANCE ALL OTHERCOUNTRIES CANADA. ALL OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES phones (including 9,840,000 dial tele-phones) and 59,033,000 miles of tele-phone wire, representing per cent, respectively, of theworld totals of telephones and the United States, there was anaverage of miles of telephonewire per telephone, compared to per telephone in the world out-side the United States. About three-fifths of the worldstelephones were owned and operatedby private companies, including 4,-548,726 privately operated telephonesoutside the United States. Nearly 81per cent of the 16,588,358 telephonesin government-owned systems were inEurope. Referring to the table TelephoneDevelopment of the World, by Coun-tries, it will be seen that the largestnational telephone systems outside the United States, in the order of theirsize, were in Germany, Great Britain,France, Japan, Canada and Russia,these being the only countries withmore than a million telephones order to make allo
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