WIRELESS TELEPHONY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22742, 30 November 1935, Page 13

WIRELESS TELEPHONY

WORLD-WIDE COMMUNICATION AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, November 28. (Received Nov. 29, at 5.5 p.m.) A remarkable experiment in the possibilities of world-wide telephonic communication will be made to-morrow when multi-lateral conversation will be held between the managing director* of International Combustion, Ltd., in London, and the company’s representatives in Paris, New York, Buenos Aires, and places in South Africa, India, Australia and New Zealand, which will at the same time be heard through loud speakers by more than 5000 of the firm’s employees in various centres. The Post Office describes the “ call ” as the largest wireless telephone order it has ever received.

Further developments in the reorganisation of Post Office administration will shortly be begun when the telegraph and telephone services in the London area will be brought under unified control in the “ London tele-communication region ” extending from St. Albans in the north to Reigate and Redhill in the south, and from Gravesend in the east to Staines in the west. It will be responsible for over 500,000 exchange lines and nearly 250 telephone exchanges, and will include the London trunk exchange, which is the operating centre for trunk calls between London and the provinces, and for calls passing between Great Britain and other countries, and also the central telegraph office, whieli is the centre not only for inland telegraph services but also for the telegraph service with Continental countries and with ships at sea.