During the Japanese Occupation, Taiwan received its first telephone and now counts 4,120,000 sets, ranking seventeenth in the world and marking a sixty-fold increase from 1955.
第一架電話，則是在日據時代正式裝設的。到今年七月為止，台灣地區的電話數已經達到四百一十二萬具，世界排名十七左右；和卅年前相比，成長了六十餘倍。