Public Switched Telephone Network

Public switched telephone network - aggregate of all circuit-switched telephone networks. Article “Public Switched Telephone Network” in Simple English Wikipedia has 14.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 2 references and 1 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Public Switched Telephone Network”, its content was written by 2 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1078 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 8 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4305 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #3185 in September 2024
• Global: #845 in June 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #40817 in February 2025
• Global: #15698 in February 2008

There are 32 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Public switched telephone network		27.4821
2	Italian (it) Rete telefonica generale		26.8905
3	Chinese (zh) 公共交换电话网		26.441
4	Persian (fa) شبکه انتقال همگانی تلفن		23.9947
5	French (fr) Réseau téléphonique commuté		23.1657
6	Arabic (ar) شبكة هاتف عامة		22.7097
7	Japanese (ja) 公衆交換電話網		19.9621
8	Azerbaijani (az) İctimai telefon şəbəkəsi		17.6247
9	Portuguese (pt) Rede pública de telefonia comutada		15.4276
10	Simple English (simple) Public Switched Telephone Network		14.8095

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Public Switched Telephone Network" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Public switched telephone network		5 048 314
2	Spanish (es) Red telefónica conmutada		1 071 043
3	French (fr) Réseau téléphonique commuté		948 688
4	Russian (ru) Телефонная сеть общего пользования		515 406
5	Italian (it) Rete telefonica generale		347 037
6	Japanese (ja) 公衆交換電話網		343 923
7	Polish (pl) Publiczna komutowana sieć telefoniczna		237 582
8	Chinese (zh) 公共交换电话网		156 892
9	Portuguese (pt) Rede pública de telefonia comutada		141 584
10	Indonesian (id) Jaringan telepon tetap		134 305

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Public Switched Telephone Network" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Public switched telephone network		8 437
2	Russian (ru) Телефонная сеть общего пользования		1 207
3	French (fr) Réseau téléphonique commuté		1 100
4	Japanese (ja) 公衆交換電話網		641
5	Spanish (es) Red telefónica conmutada		556
6	Chinese (zh) 公共交换电话网		347
7	Italian (it) Rete telefonica generale		290
8	Polish (pl) Publiczna komutowana sieć telefoniczna		198
9	Arabic (ar) شبكة هاتف عامة		188
10	Dutch (nl) Public switched telephone network		151

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Public Switched Telephone Network" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Public switched telephone network		296
2	French (fr) Réseau téléphonique commuté		134
3	Italian (it) Rete telefonica generale		82
4	Russian (ru) Телефонная сеть общего пользования		62
5	Spanish (es) Red telefónica conmutada		61
6	Norwegian (no) Public switched telephone network		48
7	Dutch (nl) Public switched telephone network		45
8	Japanese (ja) 公衆交換電話網		40
9	Danish (da) Public switched telephone network		34
10	Hebrew (he) רשת טלפוניה ציבורית ממותגת		31

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Public Switched Telephone Network" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Public switched telephone network		2
2	Persian (fa) شبکه انتقال همگانی تلفن		2
3	French (fr) Réseau téléphonique commuté		2
4	Arabic (ar) شبكة هاتف عامة		0
5	Azerbaijani (az) İctimai telefon şəbəkəsi		0
6	Belarusian (be) Тэлефонная сетка агульнага карыстання		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) PSTN		0
8	Catalan (ca) Xarxa telefònica commutada		0
9	Czech (cs) Veřejná telefonní síť		0
10	Danish (da) Public switched telephone network		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Public Switched Telephone Network" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Public switched telephone network		1 535
2	Russian (ru) Телефонная сеть общего пользования		297
3	French (fr) Réseau téléphonique commuté		288
4	Japanese (ja) 公衆交換電話網		262
5	Korean (ko) 공중 교환 전화망		211
6	Arabic (ar) شبكة هاتف عامة		204
7	Chinese (zh) 公共交换电话网		176
8	Persian (fa) شبکه انتقال همگانی تلفن		152
9	Spanish (es) Red telefónica conmutada		123
10	Catalan (ca) Xarxa telefònica commutada		108

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic شبكة هاتف عامة
az	Azerbaijani İctimai telefon şəbəkəsi
be	Belarusian Тэлефонная сетка агульнага карыстання
bg	Bulgarian PSTN
ca	Catalan Xarxa telefònica commutada
cs	Czech Veřejná telefonní síť
da	Danish Public switched telephone network
el	Greek Δημόσιο τηλεφωνικό δίκτυο μεταγωγής
en	English Public switched telephone network
es	Spanish Red telefónica conmutada
fa	Persian شبکه انتقال همگانی تلفن
fi	Finnish Puhelinverkko
fr	French Réseau téléphonique commuté
he	Hebrew רשת טלפוניה ציבורית ממותגת
id	Indonesian Jaringan telepon tetap
it	Italian Rete telefonica generale
ja	Japanese 公衆交換電話網
ko	Korean 공중 교환 전화망
nl	Dutch Public switched telephone network
no	Norwegian Public switched telephone network
pl	Polish Publiczna komutowana sieć telefoniczna
pt	Portuguese Rede pública de telefonia comutada
ru	Russian Телефонная сеть общего пользования
simple	Simple English Public Switched Telephone Network
sk	Slovak Verejná telefónna sieť
sr	Serbian Јавна фиксна телефонска мрежа
sv	Swedish Publika telefonnätet
tr	Turkish PSTN
uk	Ukrainian Публічна телефонна мережа
uz	Uzbek Umumiy telefon tarmogʻi
vi	Vietnamese Mạng điện thoại chuyển mạch công cộng
zh	Chinese 公共交换电话网

Best Rank

Simple English: #40817 02.2025

Global: #15698 02.2008

Best Rank

Simple English: #3185 09.2024

Global: #845 06.2001

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