The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1924-10-17
u. S. LEADS WORLD
IN ALL PHASES OF
TELEPHONE USAGE
HAS TEN TIMES AS MANY TELE.
PHONES IN PROPORTION TO
POPULATION.
New York City Has More Telephones
Than the Whole of Any Country
In Europe Except Germany. o. S.
Has 63 Per Cent of All Telephones

Denver has more than four
times as many telephones to ev-
ery 100 inhabitants as London,
six times as many as Vienna, and
nearly five times as many as Paris.
There are % telephones to every
hundred in Denver and there are
only 1S i'm New York, two in Rome,
and a fraction more than nine in
Berlin.
Only two cities which have a
population between 100000 and
1900, 0O0-Omaha and Minneapolis
have a greater telephone saturation
than Denver and, excepting these,
only one other city in the whole
world has more telephones per 100 of
population, and that is San Francis
co Cal.
Denver passed Los Angeles and
Washington last year in the race for
telephone leadership and Denver tele-
phone officials believe that when the
next tabulation is made public that
city will be still nearer the top.
The Bell System has just made
public it's annual edition of 'Tele-
phone and Telegraph statistics of
the World which brings the fig
ures up to January, 1928. Every
comparison that can be made shows
the unquestioned leadership of the
United States because SO per cent of
all the telephones in the world are in
this country.
In proportion to population this
country has ten times as many tele-
phones as the world at large. The
average American uses the telephone
nine times as much as the average
Englishman, and ten times as much
as the average Frenchman. There
are more telephones in New York
City than in the whole of Great Brit
ain and Northern Ireland; more in
the city of Chicago than in all of
France. In rural telephone devel-
opment, America stands head and
shoulders above the rest of the
world.
This study shows that on January
1, 1923, there were 22,904,415 tele-
phones in use throughout the world,
of which 14,347,595 we're in the I'm
tied States. Thus the American peo-
pie, who form but one-sixteenth of
the earth's population, have at their
service nearly two-thirds of all the
telephones in existence. Europe,
with four times as many people as
this country, has only about two
fifths as many telephones. On the
date to which these figures relate, |
there were 5,863,684 telephones in !
Europe, or but little more than one
quarter of the worlds total All 9TH
er countries, including the entire |
Western Hemisphere outside of the
United States, and Asia, Africa and |
Oceania as we'll, had only one-ninth |
of the total telephones in operation. |
Of the 1,100,161 telephones added
to the wire systems of the world |
during 1922, 620,670 represented
the net growth of the telephone ia
cilities of the United States.
United States Easily First
In number of telephones per 100
Of population, Americas leadership
was even more pronounced. There
were on January 1, 1928, 1871 tele-
phones for every 100 people in the
United States, as compared with 81
for every 100 people in
Germany, 2.3 in Great Britain and
Northern Ireland, 1.3 in France, and
).3 in Italy. Although Japan had the
pest developed telephone system of
my Asiatic country, she could
BOAST of but 90 telephones per 100
even prior to the earth
quake of September, 1928. 1t is
significant that these foreign coun-
ries have all entrusted the develop
nent of their telephone systems to
government ownership, whereas in
he United States the telephone bus
ness has been energetically develop
ID by private initiative. Telephone /
ystems operated by private enter i
rise now include IL per cent of the /
worlds total telephones; only 20 per {
ent being under government own
rship. Canada, with 10.4 tele-
lhoneS per LOO neonle. and Dem