TELEPHONE ACROSS ATLANTIC
SERVICE BETWEEN CANADA AND ENGLAND Rugby, October 1. It is announced by the PostmasterGeneral that the telephone service between this country and Canada will be inaugurated at 3 o’clock to-morrow afternoon. It is stated from Ottawa that the inauguration will be by a conversation between Mr. Baldwin and Mr. MacKenzie King, the British and Canadian Prime Ministers. The service will be available daily between the hours of 12.30 and 11, afternoon British time, and will for the present be. restricted to calls between subscribers in the London telephone area and subscribers in Ottawa, Quebec, Montreal, Toronto, and Hamilton, Ontario. The charge will be £l5 for a call of three minutes’ duration and £5 for each additional minute. The procedure and conditions generally will be the same as in the American telephone service.—British Official Wireless.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 8, 4 October 1927, Page 9
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