The Provincial Telephone Administration. when first established in 1928, was limited to long-distance telephones, In a year's time, however it took over the local telephone company of Hangchow and converted it into a modern automatic system. In less than ten years, the Administration's assets were at over $5,090,000. The long distance lines cover 8,000 cop kilometres connecting practically every county of the province These lines were constructed cording to C.C.I. standard, ie. with a maximum tran mission loss of less than 30 db. Its annual operatin rev ence amounts to $750,000, with a profit of about $300,000. The Administration also operates a radio broadcast station, and introduced -the first carrier-telephone system between Hangchow and Wenchow ov distance of more than 500 kin.
The future policy of the administration is to develop more rural telephone Jines within the province and to serve efficiently in the nation-wide long distance telephone service.
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