Expansion of telephone lines, radio licenses and TV licenses in Europe 1900-2000
Over the course of the1900s, particularly in the last quarter of the century, the expansion of telecommunications in Europe was significant. In the decades that followed the Second world War, the telephone replaced traditional postal methods as the most common form of communication, while the general public began to rely more on radio and television for news or entertainment than on print media. Between 1973 and 2000 alone, the number of radio licenses rose from 79 million to 350 million.
