Wireless telephony is developing' with remarkable rapidity. London is fast becoming the switchboard the world.
An Australian experimental service, which has been conducted cly the "Post Office from Rugby. and the Baldock Wireless Telephone Station to a spot near Sydney, sAUtralia, has met with great success trid an official announcement regarding the.service will be made in the near future.
Yesterday a new service to the Vatican State, via Rome, was open ed by the Post Office.
Recently the Isle of Man was linked to Britain and it is expected similar developments will take place with regard to the Channel Islands.
It is possible to telephone from Great Britain to ships at sea and, within a short time, a service wil be in. operation between any fixed telephone station and the passengers main-line express trains.
Since the single-speech channel between this country and America opened just over a year ago traffe has greatly ineveased and] now four speech channels are in use. Even these are not sufficient for the demand, Stockbrokers and other Ibusiness people have accepted the trans-Atlantic telephone necessary aid to business and use it for long calls daily, the present traffic being somewhere around a thousand calls daily. Work has been started on a new trans-Atlantic cable which is to be available for telephony and it is expected to be completed by 1932, The British Post Office is leading Europe, if not the world, in telephony and is most anxious to fill ting gaps. Linking up with other countries like Turkey depends to a great extent on the efficiency of the machinery and administration abroad.—Wireless through Reuter.
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