TELEPHONIC SERVICE.
I "A REALLY NATIONAL SYSTEM." [PHESS ASSOCIATION.] LONDON, 10th August. By 187 votes to 110 the House of Commons confirmed the agreement with the National Telephone Company. Several members on both sides of the House congratulated Lord Stanley, the Postmaster-General, on the agreement, which ensures ultimately a really national system. The National Telephone Company, which ia an amalgamation of various companies that were formed in the past to develop tho telephone industry of Great Britain, is now, under license from the Postmaster-General, conducting the greatest part of the telephone business in the United Kingdom •in local areas. Last year the company was working 1095 exchanges, and sending annually over its wires 938,000,000 messages. The compiny has about 300,000 subscribers, and a gross revenue of about £2,000,000. Under its license the company has to pay the Government 10 per cent, of its gross receipts from telephone exchange business.
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Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 36, 11 August 1905, Page 5
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149TELEPHONIC SERVICE. Evening Post, Volume LXX, Issue 36, 11 August 1905, Page 5
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