Show 3 Bell System Looks For I 00 Millionth Phone Installation This week in Vernal some new telephones telephones tele tele- phones will be installed installed and and one of them could be the Bell Systems System's millionth THE BELL System isn't trying to find out precisely which of the thousands of new phones connected this week throughout through through- out the nation will mark this milestone important is that connecting the millionth telephone signifies ies that we have virtually achieved a sought long goal universal goal universal telephone service in the United States Robert Olsen local manager man ager for Mountain Bell Dell said THE GOAL of universal service was set in 1908 by Theodore N N. Vail the first president of ATT when Bell had only four million subscribers Mr Olsen thinks the growth in tele tale telephones phones will continue at much the same pace as it has hns since World War Var II At that time lime 71 years after the phone was invented the Bell Dell System had 25 million phones Now only 25 years later that figure has quadrupled and by the end of the decade the number of Bell phones will near million IN VAILS VAIL'S day the telephone company company com pany vas was serving about 25 percent of the households Today about 93 percent percent per per- cent of the residences in the US U.S. have telephones At any anyone one moment more than three million telephone customers may be usIng using using us us- ing their phones On an average day the network carries more than 26 million long distance and more than million local messages At the end of November 1971 there were telephones in Vernal |