Iron County Record | 1969-01-16 | Page 10 | Utah's the Talkingest People in World According to Telephone Company Report

Utah's the Talkingest People in World According to Telephone Company Report Utahns continued their talking talk-ing ways in 19C8 by averaging averag-ing 9U2 telephone calls per person. That's 323 more calls that people make in Canada, the callingst nation In the world. W. Dee Jensen, local telephone tele-phone company manage, said there were approximately 1,-041,718,400 1,-041,718,400 total calls placed by Utahns during the year over the state's half-million phones. Canada narrowly edged me U. S. as the callingest nation. The U. S. averaged 667.0 calls per person, compared with 667.7 for the Canadians. Residents Resi-dents of Iceland are third on the talking list, averaging 606.3 calls per person. Next in line is Sweden with 598.9 and the Bahama Islands round out the top five with 433.9. Burmese Burm-ese use telephones the least averaging only 0.7 calls per person. Jensen said that the Salt Lake City area, with about 274,000 telephone has approximately approx-imately the same number of phones as th enations of Chile, Puerto Rico or Ireland. Latest figures show the U. S. has a total of 104 million telephones, nearly six times as many as Japan which is second. sec-ond. There are some 222 million phones in the entire world. Ninty-six percent of those can be called by U. S. telephone users.