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Rank Country/region Number of telephone lines Date of information — Worldwide 931,000,000: 2019: 1 China 183,477,000: 2018/11: 2 United States 114,000,000: 2011 est. 3 Germany ...
This list identifies the fixed line operators and the mobile operators for the top 200 most populous countries in the world. The list of countries and their populations is from List of countries by population. The CIA World Factbook is cited as the standard reference for the number of main lines for each of the listed countries. [1]
Retrieved 12 October 2019. A landline (land line, land-line, main line, fixed-line, and wireline) is a telephone connection that uses metal wires from the owner's premises also referred to as: POTS, Twisted pair, telephone line or public switched telephone network (PSTN). Landline services are traditionally provided via an analogue copper wire ...
Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876. Elisha Gray, 1876, designed a telephone using a water microphone in Highland Park, Illinois. Tivadar Puskás proposed the telephone switchboard exchange in 1876. Thomas Edison invented the carbon microphone which produced a strong telephone ...
World population [3] 6.6 billion 6.9 billion 7.3 billion 7.75 billion Fixed broadband: 5% 8% ... List of countries by number of telephone lines in use;
25 April 1935: First telephone call around the world by wire and radio. [23] 1937: The Western Electric type 302 telephone becomes available for service in the United States. 8 December 1937: Opening of fourth transcontinental telephone line. [23] 1941: Multi-frequency dialing introduced for operators in Baltimore, Maryland
List of countries by number of mobile numbers in use. This list ranks the countries of the world by the number of mobile phone numbers in use. IMPORTANT NOTE: This list does NOT provide the "number of mobile phones in use." Nobody knows that data. This is a count of phone numbers by country.
This is a list of the world's five largest satellite phone network operators measured by number of subscribers. ... List of countries by number of telephone lines in use;