Telephone problems and progress in Rumania

On January 1, 1931, the local operating company in the International and Telephone Telegraph group of companies took over the operation of the local and toll telephone network. This network includes 1380 exchanges with approximately 52,000 stations and a toll network of over 56,000 circuit kilometres spread over an area of 122,282 sq. miles. The paper deals with various aspects of welding the network into a unified system and of providing economically the necessary additions to handle the traffic demand over the period of reconstruction.