NEW TELEPHONE SYSTEM
Radio Microwave Planned (New Zealand Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH. December 20. Technicians will begin testing sites ■ February for a proposed micro--1 save trunk-line radio-telephone sys- ’ S O, lining Palmerston North, New ‘ lymouth and Hamilton. The system j * expected to come into operation in 1959. Senior post and telegraph officials sspected sites along the 235-mile ; Jute this week. The contractors, the ' “ritish firm of Standard Telephones B ®d Cables. Ltd., will be responsible - or the testing. Equipment for the circuit had al- * ’ e K v been ordered. The new microwave sj r stem is a J Buch more attractive form of transi Wion than the coaxial cable system. 1 Was rst proposed for the ■ North-Hamilton link.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28157, 21 December 1956, Page 7
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