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- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 14:14:00
- From: Paul (P.A.) Valin <pavalin@bnr.ca>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Volume of Telecom Question
- Message-ID: <telecom12.705.7@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 705, Message 7 of 11
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- In article <telecom12.689.1@eecs.nwu.edu> Dr. Ross Alan Stapleton
- wrote:
-
- > For a paper I'm writing on export controls and information, I'd like
- > to present a quick summary of the growth of telecommunications over
- > the past several decades. I've seen some overview articles (there was
- > a two-pager in the {Whole Earth Review} a few issues back), but could
- > someone from this most august forum provide some referenced figures
- > (or pointers to where I could find them) on:
-
- > - Growth in number of domestic calls completed (US);
-
- > - Growth in number of international calls (either with the US and
- > rest of the world, or total internationally, or both);
-
- > - Growth in bandwidth or calls completed to interesting places like
- > Moscow, or Cuba, or Iran, etc.
-
- A couple of good references that are likely available at your local
- library:
-
- Statistics of Communications Common Carriers, FCC
-
- - published each year by the Federal Communincations Commission
- - will give numbers of domestic (US) calls and calls between US and
- rest-of-the-world (listed by country)
- - statistics are given for previous year (you'll have to get back
- issues to see any growth figures)
-
- Yearbook of Common Carrier Telecommunication Statistics, ITU
-
- - published by International Telecommunications Union (Geneva)
- - more international in scope but less detailed than FCC book
-
- Good luck.
-
-
- Paul Valin Tel: + 1 613 763 7394
- Bell-Northern Research Ltd. Email: pavalin@bnr.ca
- P.O. Box 3511, Station C Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1Y 4H7
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-
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