KEEN COMPETITION

Evening Star, Issue 19722, 24 November 1927, Page 5

KEEN COMPETITION

WIRELESS AND CABLES INTERESTING STAGE REACHED* Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. , LONDON, November 22. The competition of wireless with tables has reached a most interesting stage, upon which one source somewhat prematurely suggests that the Government is appointing a Royal Commission to devise protective co-operation, specially giving attention to cable losses, notably, the Pacific’s recent, semiofficial inquiries stating that it is showif that beams are carrying 60 per cent.' of the traffic to India and South Africa, while the Australian beam is carrying slightly more than either of the cables, but Jess than the two together. The chief concern has been , the Pacific Board’s revenue, but' the latest freak of the beam .fading out early in the evening and'‘'continuing during the greater part of the English darkness has brown all diverted traffic into the Pacific service. This relief may be only temporary. ' Marconi’s,-in-view of the imminence of the date for handing over the Canadian beam to the Post Office, lias effected a striking improvement of its efficiency. This, when the Canadian-. Australian section is completed,_ is expected to mean considerable inroads into the Pacific traffic. * Furthermore, what can be done by the Canadian beam is probably applicable in some degree to the Australian, so diversions to the Pacific will be less. High-placed authorities recall that the British Post, Office did its best to dissuade the Pacific from expensively duplicating ns cable till it saw how wireless turned out.