RADIO-TELEPHONE SERVICES

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28685, 8 September 1958, Page 14

RADIO-TELEPHONE SERVICES

345 Subscribers, 2860 Vehicles

Radio-telephone service for road vehicles is now being provided on 85 channels at Post Office base stations established in 22 towns throughout the country, says the annual report of the Post and Telegraph Department tabled in the House of Representatives.

Subscribers numbering 345, who have a total of 2860 vehicles equipped, are receiving service. At other places where the demand for radio service was not yet high enough to warrant the establishment of Post Office base radio facilities public bodies, and business organisations had been licensed to operate their own radio-telephone services. There are 187 of these private base stations licensed for communication with 611 vehicles. The report said that in addition 328 private base stations (medium frequency) have been licensed for communication with 821 mobile stations operating in rural areas. These services have been established by power supply authorities. Catchment boards, veterinary clubs, road haulage firms, fertiliser companies and similar organisations which require communication over greater distances than can be covered by the use of very high frequencies. Government departments have been authorised to operate 292 fixed and 455 mobile stations for communication in connexion with forestry work, high tension power line erection, hydro-electric power construction and other Government works.