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x. internal communications.
set up telephones in Uddevalla and Härnösand, besides establishing several lines
of communication between telegraph and private offices.
Simultaneously with these first installations and during the period immediately
following, private telephone associations were formed, it may be said, at every
place of importance in the country. These associations, which contributed
greatly to the development of the Swedish telephone system, were formed, as a
rule, by a larger or smaller number of persons in a town or a district, which
felt a need of telephonic communication. The capital necessary for the
common exchange was contributed, and apparatus, etc., were bought in common,
but each member paid for what he used, and, as a rule, each one erected and
paid for his own line. The management was carried on, often free of expense
by a committee chosen from among the members of the association, and, as
each individual kept his line in repair, the annual fees, needed only for the
maintenance of the exchange and the telephone service, were remarkably low.
From State Telephone Exchange, Malmö. (Local Section.)
In a number of larger towns, however, limited companies, operating for
profit, undertook the setting up, etc., of telephones. That the fees in these
cases were considerably higher was a matter of course, so much the more as
greater demands were made upon these erections in regard to technical quality.
The connection of the networks at various places came about when the
technical improvements by degrees rendered conversations over greater distances
possible. In most cases, the necessary capital was obtained by subscription, and
no fee was payable for conversation even between different districts.
About 1890, the private telephone plants were calculated to embrace
a length of 40 000 km of line, and about 16 000 telephones in use. At
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