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telephones.
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visors), 128 assistants (male telegraphists), 100 women managers, 355 women
telegraphists, 83 women supervisors at the telephone exchanges, 890 long-distanec
telephonists and 92 other regular officials, together with about 2 196 extra
officials, 1 512 of whom were local telephonists. Among the traffic staff may
also be included about 2 300 persons who hold the position of managers or
assistants at sub-exchanges.
The line staff, consists of the 7 line directors already mentioned, 21
line-engineers, 414 other established and 26 extra officials; the number of workmen
employed in the line districts during 1914 amounted, on an average, to 1 424.
The telegraph workshops which were established in Stockholm in 1891 for
the manufacture and repair of telegraph- and telephone-accessories, and which
were removed, in 1913, to Nynäshamn, are under a director,who is assisted by
3 engineers and 6 other established officials. The number of workmen employed
at the works during 1914 was, on an average, 477, and the value of the
material turned out during the same vear was 1 937 887"is kronor.
6. TELEPHONES.
If, in respect to the telegraph-system just described, Sweden is on a
level, with other countries, both as regard technics and
traffic-arrange-ments, it has led the way, as far as the telephone-service is concerned,
during a long part, at least, of the period of the development of the
telephone. (Not only has Sweden adopted all technical improvements, and
introduced original devices invented in the country, both as regards the
manufacture of the apparatus, the fitting-up of the offices, and the
construction of lines and networks, but in quantitative respects, too, such a
pitch of development has been reached that, in proportion to its
population, Sweden has had more telephones in use than any other country in
the world, and, even at present, is surpassed in this respect only by one
country in Europe — Denmark — and by two or three extra-European
countries.
The telephone-service in Sweden began in the form of private telephone
companies, of which, however, the greater number were afterwards persuaded to sell
their lines to the State, after it had itself begun to establish a telephone service.
The largest of the private companies, the Stockholm Telephone Co., which
consists of an amalgamation of two original companies — the Stockholm Bell
Telephone Co., Ltd and the Stockholm General Telephone Co., Ltd — still
survives, however, as a not unimportant rival of the State Telephones, as the
proposal that the State should buy the Company in question, a proposal
repeatedly made, has come to nothing, in consequence of the unwillingness of the
Riksdag to pay the amount of compensation demanded.
The first telephone network in Sweden was constructed in 1880, by the
Stockholm Bell Telephone Co., Ltd. Almost at the same time, there were set up
telephone nets in Gothenburg (1881), Malmö, and Sundsvall, and some other,
smaller, towns (in 1881, or the years immediately following). In order to facilitate
communications between the Government departments, another network was
opened in Stockholm in 1881, by the State Telegraph Service, which, in 1882,
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