"… Over 1.6 million claims were made in 2000 for money owed by one person to another … only 36,000 debt cases went to trial …"
DTi Press Release 7th February 2002

"… 1912 … The National Telephone Company provided for 561,738 subscribers altogether …"
UK TELEPHONE HISTORY, R Fishwater.

"… [William] Gladstone had one of the earliest telephones installed at Hawarden. It was there from 1880."
p391 of Gladstone by Roy Jenkins, MacMillan ISBN 0-333-60216-1 (1995)