CABLE AND RADIO COMMUNICATION

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23375, 5 December 1945, Page 6

CABLE AND RADIO COMMUNICATION

Satisfactory Agreements ] (7.30 p.m.) BERMUDA, Dec. 3. Apart from the final plenary session scheduled for to-morrow, the work of the Telecommunica- [ tions Conference finished with agreement on many important i matters which have given satisfaction to both sides. I The results lor ooth New' Zealand ana Australia nave a vwo-toid importance—cneir eriect on the telecommunications system as a woria-wiae wnoie ana the particular application that the decisions of the conterence have for countries in tneir snare : oi the system. The recognition by the ! Americans ot the commonwealth prmI ciple of a system oatanced as oetween I cable ana radio. Tins point is especiI ally important for New Zealand and Australia for whom cables must remain the long stable liielines until radio can give an uninterrupted secret service 24 hours a day for 365 days a year. The Commonwealth delegates put it on record—and the Americans could not refute it—that such a radio service is still many years from realisation. The conference showed a wide-awake appreciation of the technical developments. The most important decision in this field concerift'd a remarkable teletyperwriter method which impressed delegates as sounding the death knell for morse sending, as it makes telegraphing by cable radio as simple as typewriting. I The conference move to standardise I the teletypewriter equipment is interj nationally regarded as certain to J achieve the desired objective.