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Identifier: belltelephonemag08amerrich (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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telephones than all of France. The eleven largeAmerican cities shown in the table had an average de-velopment of 26.7 telephones per 100 population. Withthe exception of Stockliolm, Copenhagen, Oslo and Ot-tawa, no capital city of a foreign country had a devel-opment exceeding 15 telephones per 100 population.In fact, only four large cities in Germany, namely, Ber-lin, Frankfort-on-Main, Hamburg-Altona, and Stutt-gart had developments exceeding 10, while Paris, with10.8 instruments per 100 population, is the only city inFrance above that mark. Most of the British citiesare well below a development of 5 telephones per 100inhabitants, and London with 7.7, is considerably lowerthan either Berlin and Paris. UNITED STATES CANADA NEW ZEALAND DENMARK SWEDEN NORWAY AUSTRIA AUSTRALIA NETHERLANDS SWITZERLAND JAPAN GERMANY GREAT BRITAIN BELGIUM FRANCE CZECHOSLOVAKIA HUNGARY TELEPHONE CONVERSATIONS PER CAPITA Year 1927 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 60 90 100 110 120 l30 140 ISO 160 170 ISO 190 200210 220
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10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 ISO 160 170 180 190 200210 220 Telephone conversations per capita Comparative Use of the Telephone The chart, Telephone Conversations Per Capita,shows that the United States, with 224.7 conversationsper capita in 1927, led the world in the extent to which (229) Bell Telephone Quarterly its telephone service was used by its people. Canadawas second with 221.5 conversations per capita, andNew Zealand third with 178.9. Although the Scandi-navian countries of Denmark (136.8), Sweden (114.6),and Norway (76.2) were considerably below the UnitedStates as regards telephone usage, they were well aheadof the other European countries in this respect. Thus,in Germany telephone conversations per capita wereonly 35.5 during 1927, while the corresponding figuresfor Great Britain and France were 28.6 and 17.2, re-spectively. In other words, the people of the UnitedStates make six times more use of their telephone sys-tem than the Germans, almost eight ti

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