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XIII. COMMüNICATIONS OF SWEDEN.
lines), to which must he added 295 km. length of lines in submarine
cables. The total length of the bare wire lines amounts to 3,531 km.
within the capital, and the length of lines outside the town to 12,827
km. The length of the wires is, of course, the double.
The General Telephone Co. uses instruments and office furniture
exclusively of Swedish manufacture; the Bell Telephone Co. does so to
the greatest extent.
At present, negotiations are going on between the State and the
Companies concerning free co-traffic and exchange of subscribers and
lines in order to create a better co-operation between the nets.
During the last few years the General Telephone Co. has extended its
operations outside of Sweden, the company sending in a tender in response to a
competition advertized by the Russian government respecting the erection of telephones
in the five largest cities of Russia, with the result that the telephone service
for 18 years in Moscow and Warsaw was handed over to two limited companies,
in which the General Telephone Co. has entered as a partner and as the
technical leader. In Moscow the telephone work is carried on by the
Swedish-Danish-Russiuu Telephone Co., Ltd., and in Warsaw by the Cedergren Telephone Co.,
Ltd. The managing director in both these companies is H. T. Cedergren. In
accordance with the provisions of the concession now in force, the companies have
purchased the telephone plants formerly set up in the two towns mentioned, by
the International Bell Telephone Co., and these are calculated to be entirely
reconstructed at the end of 1904 in accordance with the present standpoint of
telephone technics. The capital required for the two companies is calculated to be:
for that in Moscow 15-4 millions of kronor (for 20,000 subscribers), and for that
in Warsaw 6-s millions of kronor (for 10,000 subscribers).
Finally, the following figures may be given for a comparison between
the development of the telephone system in Stockholm and that of some
large cities in other countries. According to the latest data to hand,
the figures are as follows.
Population. apparatu^ 10,000 Cab.
Stockholm....................................302,000 29,000 960
San Francisco..........................340.000 24,000 706
Berlin................................................1.700,000 37,000 218
New York....................................1,800,000 27,000 150
Chicago..........................................1,600.000 16,000 100
Paris..................................................2,540,000 18,000 71
London............................................4,400,000 20,000 47
Thus Stockholm has not only a greater number of telephone
apparatus in proportion to its population than any other city, but its
absolute number only falls below that of Berlin and is on a level with
the number of apparatus used in New York.
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