WIRELESS TELEPHONY
SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA MUCH YET TO BE DONE (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received Nov. 21, noon.) LONDON, Nov. 20.
Though not mentioned ih the Imperial Telegraph Bill, the Australian Press Association has obtained official confirmation that inter-Empire wireless telephony will be reserved for control by the Post Office, and not handed over to the merger company. Tile fact emerges that the introduction- of telephony to Australia is at least 12« months distant. The British Post Office, after observation of the working of beam telephony, is convinced that telephony to Australia should he a separate beam with lower aerials, and on generally cheaper principles. It has a trial transmitter ready, and awaits Australia’s preparedness to experiment. If this is successful it will take nearly a year after that to manufacture permanent plant transmitters. No device so far has been discovered to overcome fading in the face of which there is a big doubt whether telephony will have a commercial appeal to Australia.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16807, 21 November 1928, Page 7
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164WIRELESS TELEPHONY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16807, 21 November 1928, Page 7
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