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shows that the number of telephones in the world almost doubled since 1951. The United States with 52 per cent of the world s telephones accounted for 47 per cent of the entire gain in the past decade. (
Two-thirds of the worlds phones are . pirivately operated according to the report but the majority of countries have government-operated telephone- systems. In Europe, for example, only 17 per cent of the telephones are privately operated and in Africa the figure is 1.6 per cent. In North America more than 98 per cent of the telephones are operated by
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