Marvels Unending
PROGRESS IN COMMUNICATION United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Friday, 7.5 p.m. LONDON, July 26. The Post Office will shortly introduce now telephone cables which will carry 200 conversations simultaneously, declares Sir Donald Banks, Director-General of the Post Office. He added that only two conversations were possible on existing cables. The time was not distant when the householder would have a news tape in the corner of a room combined with a television set to illustrate current happenings. Another corner would contain a radio telephone, and all would bo worked on the same wire. Sir Donald Banks also foreshadowed a reduction in overseas telephone rates and a two-day airmail service between England and America.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 175, 27 July 1935, Page 5
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116Marvels Unending Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 175, 27 July 1935, Page 5
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