HC Deb 22 February 1927 vol 202 c1595W
Colonel DAY

asked the Postmaster-General the number of licensed wireless listeners in Great Britain on the last convenient date, together with the comparative figures for Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Hungary, Switzerland, and the United States of America"

Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON

The latest available figures which are properly comparable are those for the 1st December, 1926, namely:

Licences.
Great Britain and Northern Ireland 2,130,000
Germany 1,337,122
Sweden 238,000
Denmark 114,492
Hungary 53,070
Switzerland 51,758

There is no licensing system in the United States of America, and no official statistics of the number of wireless receiving stations are available.