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Mere bigness isn't a business sin.
Many a large business serves the public much better than a small
business could because it is able to render service in direct pro
portion to its size. . . .
Big business has popularized the telephone in the United States un
til today there are more telephones used in this country than in all
the other nations of the earth combined.
There, is no one "Bell Company," but the Bell System is made up of
several operating companies, each giving service within a definite
territory, and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company,which
, operates long distance lines connecting the various local companies.
The Bell System is a largo organization, but it is made up of real
flesh and blood folks who are anxious to servo you in a big, broad
minded, courteous way.
The American Telephone and Telegraph Company assists in finan
cing the whole Bell System, and aids and directs in the introduction
and development of ideas and systematic plans and inventions, so
that the most satisfactory equipment and practices may bo mado
uniform throughout the country.
The Bell policy has made possible one method, one system and na-.
tion wide transmission, with the result that Bell Telephone service
has become the standard of the world.
The World's Telephones
More than 64 of all the world's telephones are
8,729,592 telephones in use in the United States,
Here. are the latest telephone statistics:
in the United States. There were on January 1st, 1913,
and only 4,841,282 in all the rest of. thov world.
Population Telephones ' of
; Country (Estimated"" (Jan. 1st, . World's
1913) 1913) Telephones
United States 97,402,000 8,729,592 64.32
Germany 66,000,000 1,302,672 . 9.60.
Great Britain 46,123,003 738,738 . 0.44
France 39,610,000 293,195 2.16
Sweden 5,604,000 217,544 1.60 -
All other nations 1,480,000,000 2,289,133 18.88
The wonderfully general use of the telephone in this country has been accomplished because the people
here get: the most efficient telephone service in the world, and get telephone servico at a less cost than
is paid by the p.eople of any other nation. 7
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Our Telephone. Policy
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To give the best telephone service that we know how to produce.
To charge the lowest possible rates consistent with prompt and ef
ficient service.
To win and merit a reputation for integrity, efficiency and decency.
To instill these principles in the minds of every one of our employees,
from the oldest to the youngest, and to have our employees proud
of the Company proud to serve it and its patrons, and Jealous of
their own and the Company's good name.
To treat every person with the utmost courtesy and consideration.
"We advertise so that the people may know"
NEBRASKA TELEPHONE COMPANY
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