TELEPHONE CALLS
NEW TYPE OF SWITCHBOARD
INSTALLATION IN LONDON
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 19. ■ (Received Sept. 20, at 5.5 p.m.) The general post office engineers have lust completed the installation of a new type of telephone switchboard, whereby London subscribers can obtain a trunk call to any part of Great Britain practically as quickly as they can get a local number. The principle on which tms new “ on demand ” system works is that the same operator who accepts the call carries the connection right through to its destination. Similar facilities to all the big cities in Europe will be available in a few weeks. This stage will be facilitated by a new Anglo-French tele- > phone cable which was laid two days «S°-
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22064, 21 September 1933, Page 9
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