Fixed Telephone Subscriptions by Country since 1960

Do you still use a fixed telephone?

This bar chart race shows the number of fixed telephone subscriptions in the world and top countries 1960-2018.

Note: Countries are shown as they exist today. East and West Germany = Germany. Russia, Ukraine and so on are not shown as Soviet Union in the past.
Fixed telephone subscriptions are defined as traditionally analogue fixed telephone lines, VoIP and WLL subscriptions, ISDN voice-channel equivalents and fixed public payphones.

Source: International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database.

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