WIRELESS TELEPHONY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19733, 30 December 1926, Page 7

WIRELESS TELEPHONY

LONDON TO NEW YORK CALLS TO GO THROUGH IN FEW DAYS CLARITY OF RECEPTION Sy Telerraph—Per Press As«n.—CopyrlgH. Received Dec. 29, 6.50 p.m. -* LONDON, Dec. 29. The General Post Office announces that it is hoped to inaugurate a public wireless telephone service with tho New York Exchange early in January. The caller will be able to use tho private telephone, in the ordinary way, giving tho American exchange and number also the name of the person to whom it is desired to speak. If connection is made with the desired person the charge will be £l5 for three minutes, and £5 for each additional minute; if the desired person is not available, the caller can converse with an alternative person at the £l5 rate. If he declines to do this he pays £2 for connection with tho desired number, but if not connected therewith he pays nothing. If atmospherics interfere with conversation, allowance will be made. The Post Office says that measures taken to cope with fading and atmospherics represent the results of three years’ research experiments, giving a clarity of reception which was not imagined possible, even so lately as 1923. Voices at each end automatically control the switches, enabling the conversation to be carried on as on ordinary land lines. The caller in London gets tho trunk exchange, where he is conuectcd with Rugby, and thence by wireless with Houlton, Maine, thence over 500 miles of land line to New York longdistance exchange, where the caller is connected with the local exchange and the number of the desired person, whose reply comes via Long Island to Wroughton, near Swindon, thence to London, and-the caller. The Post Office considers £l5 a reasonable charge, seeing that Rugby wireless station cost £500,000.