Imperial Valley press., 1925-07-28
63 PER CENT OF
TELEPHONES OF
WORLD IN u. s.
One Telephone For Every
Seven People In This
Country

There are nearly twice rs many
! telephones in the United States as in
, all the rest of the world put to-
/ set Out of total of 2t.576,-
III telephones in use throughout the
world on January /, 1924, there were
i1$G9,i5f-or 63 per cent in the
tn>,ed States of America. Europe
had G,390,7G5 telephones on that
d&te, or 26 per cent of the world :
total. The remaining 2.sl5,902
telephones, comprising / per ccnt
of the whole, were scattered through
OF; Asia, Africa. Cccauia aud the
western hcmiSpher2 outside Of the
United States.
While We had in This country one
telephone fer every seven people, in
Al other countries combined here
W. but ono telephone fer every lSj
Inhabitants. The telephone SvStcms
of ;hc world showed 4 net growth of
i.5l7,29l telephones during 1928. Of
these S7&, ,601 or well over half, were
aaded te the telephone systems Of
the Cn'red States.
These figures are taken from a
vompilat' gust made puhh. # the
telephone ana telegraph statistics of
the world The work of collecting
authoritative data from every qaar,
ter of the globe has taken consider
able time. and the published statis-
ties therefore reflect conditioas as
ot January |. 1924.
On that date there were l3.7 tcic-
phones for ever Toe population IN the
lB''cd States, as comparcI with
} in Germany, - in Great Britain,
l.5 in Franco &rd Of ia ltalv. The
countries approaching nearest to the
American record i'll this respect V'orc
Canada, With 10 telephones per 100
people. and Denmark, with S..
Privately Owned Systems
The figures take on added sigujf
ioance when = is recalled that most
Of the telephones both ia Canada
aa4 In Eeamarh are owned and op,
Grated Ly private enterprises. rs iu
tn United states. while the rcia-
ti1ciy malcr-derelopcd telephone
svs5cms e Germany. Great BgitaiH
md, France are Gudes government
oerprship. Tho japanese telephone
service, which 4 also a government
Hlan@po'H. showed development OF 4
GulN y telephones Icr 100 population
Mary thousands Of tcle phones we're
i strovo. in the earthquake of
September. i923. but even prior to.
tlat disaster, J5pap never attained
q development ut ns mach a> one
telephone for ever 100 people.
This survey also shows that Amer
iasHz Use The telephone npIch aften.
~ than Europeans. IN 1929 the
aFarag. tmsrlc4 had l>t.5 eonycr.
.fieas bF telephone. while tin av-
oes- German lad al.l. thr Fteucl
.#n 20.s. the Enel.hman 2o.i aud
tne ltr,!ap .. ia this respect. the
~eaaIiua @js.,s made "a much better
showing thau other Europeans, WI
l1%.7 telephone coaycrsat ION, per
r"p.ta aurjr. 1922 I'm Denmark,
1909 in Norway aHd 95.s in STc.cn,
bat even those figures are far be
lind the record Of lel.J for the
Unite States.
Telephone dcycjopmont abroad
+ 'argc.y concentrated =. th" morc
rportm.t t.; i.s. London aul paris,
fer instance. each have over one.
tA5sa of an the telephones "a ,acir
rt-pcctivo countries. II rompasi-
soH with American cities. however.
they make n poor showing. On Jan.
uary ], 1928. London had 5.5 tclc-
Ihoucs for every 100 people, Paris
% and Pcr,ia 9s. Stockholm was
thc only European capital which had
attained Telephone Development