LONG TELEPHONE SERVICES
LON DON -BR AZTL REG UL AR.
British Official Wireless.
Rugby, July 20. A telephone service between London and Buenos Aires, a distance of over 7000 miles, will open on Monday. At first it will be a limited service between 5.30 p.m. and 9 p.m. < The charge will be £6 9s for the first three minutes and £2 3e for each minute thereafter. No charge will be mad© for the present if the call is not completed. This will be the longest regular British telephone service, although successful experimental talks have been mad© to Australia, 12,000 miles away.
It is already possible to talk to any city in America at any time, and San Francisco is approximately 5000 miles from London. To speak to New York, 2800 miles from London, costs £9 for three minutes. To speak to Mexico, 5000 miles away, the minimum cost is £l2.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1929, Page 8
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