According to statistics of the Directorate General of Telecommunications, last year on average 66 million phone calls were made each day on Taiwan; and by this May, there were 5.8 million telephones on the island, or more than one for every four people.
根據電信局的統計，去年台灣地區接通的電話，平均每天高達六千六百多萬次。到今年五月底，電話機總數已經超過五百八十萬，在全世界排名第十七位；平均不到四個人便有一具。在今天，電話不但越來越普遍，它所能做的事，也在不知不覺中增加了很多。