WIRELESS TELEPHONY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20959, 24 February 1930, Page 9

WIRELESS TELEPHONY

DEVELOPMENT IN ENGLAND. EXPERIMENTS WITH AUSTRALIA. j (British Official Wireless.) (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, February 21. (Received Feb. 23, at 5.5 p.m.) Wireless telephony is developing with remarkable rapidity and London is fast becoming the switchboard of the world. The Australian experimental service which has been conducted by the post office from Rugby and Baldock wireless telephone stations to a spot near Sydney, Australia, has met with great success and an official announcement regarding the service will be made in the near future. -Yesterday a new service "as opened by the post office to the Vatican State, via Rome. Recently the Isle of Man was linked to the mainland and it is expected that a similar development will take place with regard to the Channel Islands. It is possible' to telephone from, Great Britain to ships at sea and within a short time a service will be in operation between any fixed telephone station and passengers on main line express trains. Since the single speech channel between this country and America was opened just over a year ago traffic has greatly increased and now four-speech channels are in use. Even these are not sufficient for the demand as stockbrokers and other business people have accepted the transAtlantic telephone as a necessary aid to business and use it for long calls every day,' the present traffic being somewhere around 1000 calls a day. Work has been started on the new trans-atlantic cable which is to be available for telephony, and it is expected to be complete soon. The British post office is leading Europe, if not the world, in telephony and is most anxious to fill the existing gaps. Linking up with other countries like Turkey, depends to a great extent on the 1 efficiency of the machinery and administration abroad.