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Show Telephone Is A Retail Business A recent issue of "Telephony" calls attention to the fact that, while most other great indusries carry on a wholesale business with the public, the telephone industry necessarily carries on a retail business. busi-ness. There can be no such thing as wholesale production and distribution distribu-tion of telephone service. Each ?all is an exclusive service, demanding demand-ing personal contact and the use of a circuit. Every customer must be served separately. No matter how large the telephone tele-phone industry may grow, or how extensive its equipment may become, be-come, its service must always be provided on a retail basis an individual indi-vidual service, ready at any time for the use of any customer. |