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right of expropriation with regard to already completed private
lines. The government has moreover already commenced the
formation of a complete state telephone system, and during the last
three years has voted successively, to telegraph and telephone lines,
kr. 1,331,900, kr. 1,398,160 and kr. 1,425,500. Of these sums, the
amounts devoted to unmixed telephone lines were kr. 966,300,
kr. 869,860, and kr. 819,900. In the south and west of Norway,
a connected state telephone system has already been completed:
and according to a plan, worked out by the director of the
telegraphic service, for the future extension of the telephone, there
should be, in 1906, a fairly complete state telephone system over
the whole country.
The total length of state telegraph and telephone lines at
the close of 1898, amounted to 7,485 miles (378 miles of this
being cable). The total length of telegraph wires was 11,266
miles (427 miles cable), and of telephone wires 6,371 miles (66
miles cable). The total number of cables was 363. During 1898,
300 stations were working, 113 being regular telegraph stations,
117 regular telephone stations, and 70 fishing stations. The
number of employés at the close of the year was 513.
The telegraphic rates on the first line were exceedingly low,
namely 20 øre for a message which might contain 25 words. A
zone system was afterwards resorted to, but again abandoned in
1863, when a uniform rate was fixed for the whole country, with
a price of 1 kr. up to 15 words. In 1888, the rate was reduced
to 5 øre per word, but with a minimum charge of 50 øre per
telegram, and this rate is still in force.
The telephone rates are not yet finally regulated. At present
they are collected on the basis of a zone tarif.
In 1898, the number of telegrams dispatched was 2,074,236.
The increase from the previous year is 2.5 per cent for inland
and 9.6 per cent for foreign messages. The correspondence was
greatest with England (260,374 telegrams exchanged); next comes
the German Empire, Sweden, Denmark and France.
The number of conversations through the state telephone
was 713,472.
The revenue from the combined telegraph and telephone
systems amounted in 1898 to kr. 1,945,735, which shows an
increase on the preceding year of kr. 295,136. The expenses
amounted to kr. 1,954,911.
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