COMMERCIAL WIRELESS
A BIG AMERICAN SCHEME. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received January 5, 9.40 p.m. NEW YORK, Jan. 4. It is announced that the Radio Corporation of America has been formed to operate a commercial wireless system over America, Britain, France, Scandinavian countries, China and Japan. The corporation will have a capitalisation of £4,000,000; and the rates will be a third less than cables. It is understood that the new concern has absorbed the British and American Marconi interest and is controlled by the General Electrical- Company. Its operations will begin as soon as the Government returns the wireless stations, which were taken over and operated by it during the war.
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Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14256, 6 January 1920, Page 5
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