TWO PREDICTIONS
IMPROVED TELEPHONE CABLES.
TWO-DAY MAIL TO AMERICA
(United Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, July 25.
“The Post Office will soon introduce new telephone cables, which will carry 200 conversations simultaneously,” declared Sir Donald Banks, Dir-ector-General of the Post Office. He added that only; two conversations were possible on the existing cables. The time was not distant when the householder would have a news tape in the corner of a room combined with a television set, to illustrate current happenings. Another corner would contain a radio telephone, and all would be worked on the same wire.
Sir Donald Batiks also foreshadowed a i eduction in overseas telephone rates and a two-day air mail service between America and England.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 243, 27 July 1935, Page 5
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