The Archive · 1926

TWO-WAY WIRELESS 'TELEPHONY

Successful Trans-Atlantic Talks} on Sunday: No Service before Next' Autumn London, Mar, 7.

Further development in two-way telephonic communication between Britain and the United States occurred to-day when for the first time a definite schedule. of communications was successfully arranged between London and New York.

'Thanks to the almost total' absence of atmospherics, owing to the fact that the present season is abnormally favourable for wireless communication, the reception.was: excellent, but it is understood th in view of obstacles still to be overcome nothing in the nature of a public Anglo-American telephonic service is contemplated before the autumn at the earliest.

It is understood that commercial telephone services to Austr: South Africa, India and the Far! East may depend on: the successful outcome of the present experiments, Dut developments in this connexion have not yet been tuckled—Reuter.

New York, Mar. 8, Wireless telephone conversations with London have been entirely successful at this end. The London speakers were clearly heard as over! the local Vines, asides such as the tolling of bells, the suming of feet and the hum of voices being clearly distinguishable—Reuter's American

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