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XIII. COMMüNICATIONS OF SWEDEN.
Rural telephone line.
The Bell Telephone Co., which has free co-traffic with the General
Telephone Co., receives, as we have mentioned, only subscribers living in Stockholm.
Its subscription fee is 36 kronor (f 2) for private, and 45 kronor (♦ 2V») for
business premises, to which in both cases, as a rule, must be added an entrance
fee of 10 kronor (11 «/».). This annual fee entitles the subscriber to free
conversations with those subscribers of the other company whose names are marked
with a star (»star-subscribers»; see below) and, besides, to 100 free conversations
per quarter to the other subscribers in both companies; for every additional
conversation asked for from this apparatus a payment of 10 öre (l’/s d.) >s
made. On the other hand, the subscribers have the full right of receiving any
number of messages. The company has six small exchanges in different parts of
the town. The number of the subscribers on December 31, 1903, amounted to
11,481. The staff, at the end of 1903 consisted of 95 operators, 7 belonging to
the office staff, 1 civil engineer, and 29 porters and workmen, a total of 132
persons. The subscribed capital amounted to 1,000,000 kronor, and 6 % on this
was received by the shareholders for 1902.
The General Telephone Co. has subscribers both in and around Stockholm,
embracing a district with a radius of 70 km. from the Stortorget (Great Square)
of Stockholm. In accordance, with the fifty years’ concession, mentioned above and
dated May 1, 1891, the company possesses the right, within that district, of erecting
telephone lines along the public highways and across ground belonging to the State.
The company has three exchanges within Stockholm, possessing on December
31, 1903, 18,081 subscribers’ lines, and, within the conceded district, 152 exchanges,
which, at the same time, had 5,198 subscribers’ lines. The total of subscribers
was thus 23,279. If we add to this the number of subscribers to the Bell
Telephone company, the systems of the two collaborating companies on the date
mentioned embraced no less than 34,760 apparatus.
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