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2. Rates for internal trunk lines. The time unit in Switzer- 

 land is three minutes. No person may retain a line longer than 

 six minutes if it is otherwise wanted. 



The trunk rates are : 



Up to 50 kilometers . . . .- 2-88</. 



50 100 4-8</. 



Over loo ,, . . . . . . 7 ' -2.il. 



As previously mentioned, 239 miles may already be spoken 

 over. Trunk charges, and all others involving the trusting of sub- 

 scribers, must be covered by deposit on which no interest is 

 allowed. Accounts are rendered monthly. Non-subscribers pay 

 the same trunk rates as subscribers, but must of course make 

 use of a public telephone station. 



3. Rates for international trunk lines. The rates between 

 Switzerland and France were determined by the convention of 

 July 31, 1892, and are regulated by the distance talked over. 

 Within a radius of ten kilometers of the frontier the charge is 

 4*8^. per three minutes ; within a radius of 100 kilometers, g'6d. ; 

 within a radius of 200 kilometers, i6'8dT. ; for each 100 kilometers 

 of additional radius, 9-6^. extra. There is no restriction imposed 

 as to the distances talked over, so that, electrical conditions 

 permitting, all Swiss may converse with all French subscribers. 



On the German side there is communication at $"j6d. per three 

 minutes between Kreuzlingen and Constance (Baden). 



On the Austrian side, St. Gallen, Romanshorn, and a few other 

 Swiss towns near the frontier may speak with Bregenz, Dornbirn, 

 and Feldkirch (Austria) at 15-. per three minutes. 



The same towns may likewise speak, via Bregenz, to Lindau 

 (Bavaria) and Friedrichshafen, Ravensburg and Langenargen 

 (Wiirtemberg), at 14' <\d. per three minutes. 



Before the communication was discontinued by order of the 

 Imperial German Government the rate between Basle and St. 

 Ludwig and Mulhouse (Alsace) was is. per three minutes. 



4. Rates for telephoning of telegrams. Each telegram 

 dictated to a telegraph office through a telephone exchange by a 

 subscriber from his own office, or handed in by a non-subscriber 



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