dave@uunet.uu.net (Dave Horsfall) (08/07/89)
This was found in Computing Australia, 24th July 1989:
``Ring-a-ding-ding: busy lines!
Just because you were _dying_ to know, we can now tell you that
Australia ranks 12 in the world for the number of telephones it
has. With a piddling 6,816,301, we're a country mile behind the
US, which bolts in with 118,400,662. Second, trailing well behind
with 49,976,000 is Japan, followed by the Soviet Union with 27,660,900.
All these unforgettable facts are contained in the latest edition
of "The World's Telephones", an AT&T reference book. But wait,
there's more. Not only that, but the book also gives figures for
"teledensity" (hmmmm?), the number of telephones per 100 population.
In regard to Australia:
+ Sydney has 1,420,419 telephones (half of which, half the time,
work), and:
+ There are about 99,000 coin-operated phones in Australia (less
than half of which are still there, working about half of the
time).
You can get this literary "must" from AT&T's New Jersey headquarters,
at 26 Parsippany Rd, Whippany. Where else, for a book like this?''
--
Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU), Alcatel STC Australia, dave@stcns3.stc.oz
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