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WIRELESS TELEPHONY. INTRODUCTION TO AUSTRALIA. EXPERIMENTS AWAITED. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Australian Press Asscoeiation.) Received November 21, 10.30 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 20. Though not mentioned in the Imperial Telegraph Bill recently, the Australian Press Association has obtained official confirmation that inter-Empire wireless telephony will be reserved for control by the Post Office and not handed over to the Merger Company. The fact emerges that the introduction of telephony to Australia is at least twelve months distant.
The British Post Office, after observation of the working of the beam telephony, is convinced that telephony to Australia should be separate from the beam, with lower aerials and on generally cheaper principles. The Post Office has a trial transmitter ready and awaits Australia’s preparedness to experiment. If this is successful, it will take nearly a year after that to manufacture a permanent plant and transmitters. No service so far has been discovered to overcome fading, in face of which there is a big doubt if telephony will have a commercial appeal to Australia.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 304, 21 November 1928, Page 7
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174EMPIRE SERVICES Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 304, 21 November 1928, Page 7
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