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There is also an elaborate tariff for several instruments on the 

 same line. Contracts are for one year only. Subscriptions are 

 payable quarterly in advance. The difference of rate between the 

 central and suburban exchanges is due to the small number of 

 junction wires employed, which necessitates occasional waiting for 

 connections by the suburban subscribers. 



The tariff covers connection in any part of the town or suburbs, 

 and includes the right to originate communication with any tele- 

 phone subscriber in Zealand. 



2. Pates for Zealand and Funen trunk communications. 

 As the local rates cover the Zealand trunks, the company has no 

 trunk revenue except that derived from the express fees, there 

 being a rule that any subscriber who wants immediate connection 

 may speak out of his turn on payment of 4*6^. As the provincial 

 subscribers are entitled to be called up from Copenhagen, it is 

 important for them to have their names in the Copenhagen 

 Company's list, although they may themselves be members of a 

 local exchange owned by another association. For this service 

 the Copenhagen Company charges us. i\d. per annum per 

 insertion. To these two sources of income must be added the fees 

 4'6*/. per five minutes payable by strangers at public telephone 

 stations for talks to Zealand towns. The tariff for trunk talks to 

 Funen and Jutland has been fixed at is. i\d. and is. M. per three 

 minutes respectively, these charges going to the State. At date 

 of writing (February 1895) the Jutland line had not been com- 

 pleted. 



3. Rates for international trunk communication : 



s. d. 



To Malmo i 8 



,, Stockholm . . . . . . . 2 2\ 



,, Gothenburg . . . . . . . 2 2\ 



Time unit, 3 minutes. 



4. Rates for the telephoning of telegrams : 



When the message is telephoned direct between the sub- 

 scriber's office and the State telegraph office, in either 

 direction, per message ....... 2 -6d. 



When dictated to the company's office for handing to the 

 State, or a message is received by the company from the 

 State to be telephoned, per word ..... 



