. Bell telephone magazine . 10 Telephones per 100 Population, January 1, 1938 as will be seen from the following summary: Telephones Telephone Wire Per Per 100 100 Number Pop. Miles Pop. United States 19,453,401 90,831,000 Rest of World 19,791,668 77,742,000 Total World 39,245,069 168,573,000 124 worlds telephone statistics In relation to population, the number of telephones in theUnited States was nearly sixteen times that in the rest of theworld. About 60 per cent of the worlds telephones were owned andoperated by private companies, including 4,309,464 private
. Bell telephone magazine . 10 Telephones per 100 Population, January 1, 1938 as will be seen from the following summary: Telephones Telephone Wire Per Per 100 100 Number Pop. Miles Pop. United States 19,453,401 90,831,000 Rest of World 19,791,668 77,742,000 Total World 39,245,069 168,573,000 124 worlds telephone statistics In relation to population, the number of telephones in theUnited States was nearly sixteen times that in the rest of theworld. About 60 per cent of the worlds telephones were owned andoperated by private companies, including 4,309,464 privatelyoperated telephones outside the United States. The remain-ing 40 per cent were owned and operated by governmentalagencies, the larger portion (12,415,244) being in million, or 51 per cent of the world total, were dialtelephones connected to machine switching offices; approxi-mately 8,500,000 of these dial telephones were in service inthe United States. GOVERNMENT39 I % PRIVATE60 1%. Ownership of the Worlds Telephones, January 1, 1938 The worlds telephone wire mileage, aggregating over 168,-000,000 miles, is equivalent to a two-wire circuit over 350 timesthe mean distance between the earth and the moon in corresponds to more than 400 feet of wire for every personin the world, or to miles per telephone in service. Comparative Development by Countries The conventional method of comparing the relative extentof telephone facilities states the number of telephones as a per- 125 x = s C. u 3 SPh o O* O O fN lO iC \0 rr> 00 fvj O O f*5 5 00 O-^-^ fN >0 ^ 00 00 O t^ IS >-< OM—-fO O lO vO VO *^00\«*t^ -lOOrO-ivo ■^^Tj<c^rt<r-<^TfO\0f0r0Pr)ON00v0v0t^00^»2CSr~CNt^^ u-j -H o O T-i O O -J* ■^ rj< rh O ^ •rt Tt rC «0 \d O -H •^ ^ O ^O O •»*< ^~ O O O O ■rt ■^ O -h «S [1013 t^t^i-^io CO ■^ r^-^ Tj( CN O t^ O 0\ ■^ O ro CN ■.-
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