The Omaha guide., 1938-06-11
Omaha Has Twice AS
Many Phones AS
London or Berlin

Omaha continues to hold eighth
place among the larger cities in
the world in the number of tele-
phone. with 1888 telephones per
100 population or one telephone
for every four persons, accoring
to figures now available as to tele
phone usage in every country IN
the world at the beginning of 1897
For every 100 people, Omaha
has approximately twice as many
telephones as do either London or
Berlin, three times as many as
Paris or Amsterdam, slightly less
than five times as many as Clos
gov, Scotland; six times as many
as Toxic and IA times as many os
Hong Kong. While the world
telephone statistics b of January
/, 1887, show Omaha as hoving
Cd ,553 telephones, its telephones
at present total about $4,000.
A report just released by the
chief s%atistician Of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Comp
any. shows a total of 37,098, 084
telephones in the world as of
january /, 1887. This number is
5 percent greater than the prev
ious peak reached in the beginn-
ing of 1881.
The United Stotes, with only 6
percent of the worlds aggregate
population of slightly over two
billions. had one-half of the
words telephones, or slightly over
two billions, had one half of the
worlds telephones, or 18,433,400
on January 1, 1887. CAT the pres
ent time there are more than 49,
500. 900 telephones in the United
Stotes.) Europe, with over 575
million people, had ~13,513,152 tele-
phones on January |, 1887 or &c.
AZ percent of the world total.
Next to the United States, Germ
any had tn elargest number of
telephones, 3,431 ,O74, followed by
Great Britain with 1871, 597 tele-
phones, France with 1,481,788
Conada with 1,266,228 and Japan
with 1912 These five count
ries, together with the United
States, account for n percent of
all telephones in the world.
Sixty one percent of all the
words telephones are owned by
private companies, operating
chiefly in countries having the
largest number of telephones in
relation to population. For ex-
ample, the United States outranks
all other countries with 14.39 tele
phores to each 100 of it's popula-
ton. Next in rank to the United
States comes Canada, with 11.48
telephones per 100 population and
is percent of its telephones under
government operation. Among
countries where the telephone ser
vice is operated as a government
monopoly are Great Britain, Ger
many and France, where the tele-
phone density is 500, sos and
3.51 telephones per 100 population
respectively.
The worlds leading cities in
point of telephone development
are Washington, d c., and San
Francisco, where there was more
than one telephone for every three
people. Then there We're Stock
holm, Sweden; Denver; Vancouv-
er, B. c.; Los Angeles, Seattle and
Omaha.
Telephone Calls
Nearly twenty-seven billion To-
cal and long distancec telephone
calls were completed in the Unit
ed States during 1896. This fig
ure is equivalent to nearly $50
conversations each second during
the day and night; it also is equiv
a,lent to 210 calls for every man
woman child in this country. Else
whore in the world, the annual
rate average per capita is estih-
ated at 12.5, or less than 6 per-
cent of the frequency with which
the telephone is used by the Am
erican people.
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