TELEPHONE SERVICE
11,000,000 TOLL CALLS SPEED AND QUALITY THE SUN'S Parliamentary Reporter WELLINGTON, Thursday. The outstanding feature of the telephone business during the year, states the Post and Telegraph annual report, presented to the House today, was the increased use of the telephone for toll purposes. The total number of calls exceeded 11,000,000, representing an increase on the previous year’s traffic of over 7 per cent. -The toll revenue amounted to £482,571, an increase of approximately 9 per cent. While this greater use of toll lines was stimulated to some extent by a greater commercial activity and by a more extensive use of the telephone in the social life of the community, probably the largest contributing factors were the increased speed of the service, the improved quality of speech and the greatly-extended range of service which had been provided during recent years. The toll revenue for the year exceeded the revenue derived from telegrams, the relative figures being: Toll, £482,571; telegrams, £405,604. Ten years ago the corresponding figures were:—Toll, £211,911; telegrams, Jl 392,310. . ‘ _
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1057, 22 August 1930, Page 16
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173TELEPHONE SERVICE Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1057, 22 August 1930, Page 16
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