Rozwój usług łączności w okresie dwudziestopięciolecia PRL

Abstract

In the 25-years period of Polish People's Republic the achievements of the Communication Department including its basic divisions: the post-office and the telecommunication were remarkable and become still more spectacular if we take into consideration the fact that communication facilities had to be completely rebuilt because of the tremendous destruction caused by the war and the devastation of facilities done by the Nazi occupant. Owing to the rebuilding and developing of communication facilities their actual potential exceeds the pre-war state very remarkably. The increase in post-office services of transport and bank types compared to the level of 1938 is illustrated with the following data: ordinary letters — 151%, registered letters — 342%, magazines — 215%, parcels — 182%, postal and telegraphic orders — 253%, savings put in the post-office — 188%. In 1968 there were almost 960.000 telephone subscribers (in 1939 only 225,400), 2,95 telephone subscribers and 5,09 telephones to 100 inhabitants (in 1938 0.64 and 0,86 respectively), 1063 trunk calls and 43 telegrams to 100 inhabitants (in 1939 80 and 11.4 respectively). Telex service that was unknown in this country in the pre-war period covered 3100 subscribers and 9.4 teleprinters of the telex network to 100.000 inhabitants in 1968. General development of post-office and telecommunication services was accompanied by a simultaneous leveling or reducing of differences in that field in towns and villages, in the provinces and their capitals, in accordance with the economic and cultural development of the whole country.