The Carbon County chronicle. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1924, 1924-10-15

shoulders above the rest of the
world.
This study shows that on January
l. 1923. there were 22,904,415 tele-
phones in use throughout the world,
of which 14,347,595 were In the I'm
tied States. Thus the American peo-
pie, who form but one-sixteent 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,S63,684 telephones in
Europe, or but little more than one
quarter of the worlds total. All 9TH
err 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 fla
cilities of the United States.
United States Easily First
In number of telephones per 10O
OF population, Americas leadership
was even more pronounced There
were on January i, 1923, 13.1 tele
phones for every 100 people In the
United States. as compared with 3.E
telephones for every 100 people In
Germany, 2.3 in Great Britain and
Northern Ireland, 1.3 in France, ant
0.3 in Italy. Although Japan had ths
best developed telephone system o
any Asiatic country, she coul(
boast OF but 90 telephones per 10I
inhabitants, even prior to the earth
quake OF September, 1923. 1t Il
significant that these foreign coun
tries have all entrusted the develop
ment of their telephone systems t
government ownership, whereas /
the United States the telephone bus
mess has been energetically develop
ed by private initiative. Telephon
systems operated by private enter
prise now include II per cent of til
II worlds total telephones; only 20 DC
Il cent being under government owl
II ership. Canada, with 10.4 tell
H phones per 100 people, and Del
II mark with S.3 approach neare
II to this country in number of tel
II phones per 100 inhabitants.
II Leads in Urban and Rural Telephone
II In absolute numbers, New Yol
II City, with 1,072,632 telephones {
II January /, 1928, was easily fir
II among all the cities Of the world.
II fact, the American metropolis alol
II had more telephones than the who
II of any foreign countries except &c
II many. New York's telephone dev'
/ opment of 1872 telephones per i
II people far exceeded that of Berli
II 90; Paris 6.3; or London, 81.
II the same date, Omaha had % te
II phones for every 100 inaabitani
II San Francisco 25.2; Minneapol
24.2 Denver, 23; and Washingtt
228. The only important forei
city with comparable telephone
velopment was Stockholm with 81
telephones per 100 people.
In most foreign countries te
phone facilities are even more
stricted in the smaller communit
than in the large cities. Farme
telephones are almost unknown
Europe. Telephone development h
In many countries, been concentr
ed principally in the capital Gil
and large commercial cent?
More than one-third of all the B
ish telephones, for example, are
London; over one-third of all
French telephones are In Paris.
Americans appreciate their uni
telephone facilities and use the I
phone far more than do other
y tions. During 1922 there we're
telephone conversations per per
in the United States, as against
In Germany, IL in France and II
Great Britain and Northern Irel;
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