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Here is a list of the availability of telegram services around the world, with no usage numbers though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_use_of_telegram

by lqet 6y ago

Here is a list of the availability of telegram services around the world, with no usage numbers though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_use_of_telegrams_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_use_of_telegrams_by_...

pndy 6y ago
List says that telegram service existed in Poland till 2018 (160 characters message delivered in 6hrs for a price of 43,05PLN - almost 9,50€ and 11,50USD by today's rates [1] - it simply couldn't compete with SMS services anymore which become really cheap or in some service provider cases free) but telex was shut down by Polish Post in 2007, acc to Polish wiki [2]. I still have some telegram wedding invitations somewhere in the attic on something that looks like stationery (bit more fancy than standard form). [1] - https://www.radiozet.pl/Technologia/Poczta-Polska-rezygnuje-z-telegramu https://www.radiozet.pl/Technologia/Poczta-Polska-rezygnuje-... [2] - https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleks https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleks
- Jendrej 6y ago
  I think telegram is not equal to telex. From what I’m reading, telegram messages were initially sent between offices by telegraph. In later years, the word has come to simply mean a message that is delivered by the post quickly, regardless of their internal transfer method between offices (which could be telex or later the internet). The list may not be wrong, but it is not on topic.
  - pndy 6y ago
    > I think telegram is not equal to telex I tried to point out that; at least here in Poland these services were running independently since one was terminated earlier and other one much later - thus, these of course weren't same but the technology used to deliver messages could be. Polish wikipedia mentions telex for telegrams and later WAN network run by Polish Post; smaller offices in the past would receive messages by phone and then manually fill out form that would be delivered to the recipient.
GekkePrutser 6y ago
Yeah but stating that the amount of telegrams being higher than the number of international calls... I just doubt it in this day and age of mobile phones.
parliament32 6y ago
Telegram and telex are different things.

by lqet 6y ago

pndy 6y ago

List says that telegram service existed in Poland till 2018 (160 characters message delivered in 6hrs for a price of 43,05PLN - almost 9,50€ and 11,50USD by today's rates [1] - it simply couldn't compete with SMS services anymore which become really cheap or in some service provider cases free) but telex was shut down by Polish Post in 2007, acc to Polish wiki [2]. I still have some telegram wedding invitations somewhere in the attic on something that looks like stationery (bit more fancy than standard form). [1] - https://www.radiozet.pl/Technologia/Poczta-Polska-rezygnuje-z-telegramu https://www.radiozet.pl/Technologia/Poczta-Polska-rezygnuje-... [2] - https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleks https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleks

Jendrej 6y ago
I think telegram is not equal to telex. From what I’m reading, telegram messages were initially sent between offices by telegraph. In later years, the word has come to simply mean a message that is delivered by the post quickly, regardless of their internal transfer method between offices (which could be telex or later the internet). The list may not be wrong, but it is not on topic.
- pndy 6y ago
  > I think telegram is not equal to telex I tried to point out that; at least here in Poland these services were running independently since one was terminated earlier and other one much later - thus, these of course weren't same but the technology used to deliver messages could be. Polish wikipedia mentions telex for telegrams and later WAN network run by Polish Post; smaller offices in the past would receive messages by phone and then manually fill out form that would be delivered to the recipient.

GekkePrutser 6y ago

Yeah but stating that the amount of telegrams being higher than the number of international calls... I just doubt it in this day and age of mobile phones.

parliament32 6y ago

Telegram and telex are different things.