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THE British Post Office is laying a special cable of tho co-axial typo betw-een London, Birmingham, and Manchester. The result of this action is that Birmingham is expected to be provided with a television transmitting station as soon as the London apparatus is working smoothly, with Manchester next on the lint. As the television services in the beginning will occupy but three hours per dav and tlm cable will cost about £IOOO per mile, it is stated (Lit the cable will he extensively used for telephone and’ other post office business- Because it can transmit such a wide band of frequencies a cable of this type working on the carrier or “wired wireless" system could handle between L’oo and MOO telephone conversations, or several times that number .of telegraphic, channels. Its use in this wav may lighten the immense financial burden of the television circuit.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19099, 21 August 1936, Page 11
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