CABLES AND WIRELESS.
PROPOSED NEW SERVICE. COMPETITION WITH MARCONI ATLANTIC COMMNUICATION. By Telegiaph—Prcs3 Association—Copyright. (Received January 29, 5.5 p.m.) A, and N.Z. LONDON, Jan. 28. The Morning Post says the news that the Commercial Cable Company proposes to operate a wireless service between America and Europe, has conic as a bombshell in the middle of the Wireless Conference, which is sitting in London. Until further details are known experts are of opinion that it will be very difficult for the Commercial Company to run a transatlantic wireless service without infringing the Marconi Company's patents. The Marconi Company operates the present transatlantic beam system under a post office licence, the terms of which li.r.c not been revealed, but a postal ulixial states that the licence does not preclude another company from establishing a licensed station in Britain. Experts believe that it will take two years to modernise the Commercial Company's radio station on Long Island, New York. At the Wireless and Cables Conference at the week-end Sir John Denison-Pender and Admiral Sir Lowther Grant gave information regarding the position of the Eastern audi other Associated Cable Companies
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19857, 30 January 1928, Page 9
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186CABLES AND WIRELESS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19857, 30 January 1928, Page 9
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