WONDERS OF WIRELESS.

Mataura Ensign, 3 July 1914, Page 5

WONDERS OF WIRELESS.

COMPETITION WITH CABLES. BT TSLRCTBIC TELEGRAPH COPYRIGHT. PKR ENITKJ) PREBB ASSOCIATION. LONDON, July 2. Giving evidencve before the Dominions Commission. Mr Godfrey Isaacs (manager of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company) said that it was quite possible for the Marconi Company to transmit across the Atlantic 25,006,000 words annually. The rates already were 30 per cent, cheaper than cables wherever they had competition, and the cost was so little to establish that it became cheaper and cheaper with every improvement which enabled an increased load. The Carnarvon and Belmar stations marked a new ejmcli in wireless telegraphy and would be able to despatch and receive with as much certainty and secrecy as a submarine cable and at a third less cost and still have a large profit. Sign or Marconi liad assured him that w hen the mechanical apparatus was complete for an automatic wireless telegraph there was no reason why it should not send and receive 300 words nor minute. Sij<»or Marconi had already wirelessed by telephone over a distance- <>f GOO miles, and contemplated telephon'ng from Carnarvon to Now York. The connection of Glace Bay (Nova Scotia) and Montreal would enable the Marconi Company to cater effectively lor Australian requirements, free of the Pacifi? cable, and from the impost exacted by. the Atlantice cable for the time and d?*te of fil'ng messages and for the delivery of duplicate and triolicate copies to customers. It would also enable the Pacific Company to arrange for a suitable week-end letter 4erv : ce. Moreover the 2d a word paid to the Atlantic C-ompanv for transit from Montreal to the cable landings would. accrue to the Pacific ca'ble. while the [Marconi Company was in a position to quote the Pacific cable at the Atlantic rate of 6d a word for ordinary messages.