RADIO TELEPHONY.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20092, 22 November 1930, Page 14

RADIO TELEPHONY.

CHARGES FOR COMMUNICATION

Further details of the overseas radio telephone service, n. description of which was contained in yesterday's issue of The Press, have been received in Christchurch at the District Telegraph Office, und although tho service between New Zealand and Australia opening nest week will not be extended to Great Britain and Europe immediately, a schedule of charges for all countries has been compiled, and the dates when communication may be held with many distant, peoples will be announced from time to time. In communication with Australia, three States, Tasmania, West Australia, and the Northern Territory, will not be linked up with New Zealand, as these are not yet in the Australian system. Otherwise the service will be available from approximately 11 a.m till 9 p.m. (New Zealand Summer Time), every day except Sundays, and the hours will later be extended. Thorough tests have been conducted to determine which townships, if any, will have to be excluded from the service, and it has now been found that practically every centre of any s>ze will be linked up. To prevent subscribers from being put to expense if conditions are unsatisfactory, a test bv the operator in Wellington will be carried out with a view to determining it speech will be clear, so that before communication is established every precaution will be taken in the subscriber's interests.

Tariff for calls from New Zealand to the main countries of the world has been compiled on the basis of a minimum three minutes' period, every additional minute or fraction of a minute being charged extra.

For an Australian call, the charge is £3, this being by far the cheapest. Great Britain (England, Scotland, and (Wales) may be_ communicated with at a cost_ of £6 15s, rising to £7 is for the Irish Frea State nnd Northern Ireland. On the Continent of Europe, charges vary from £7 10s for France, to £7 16s for Germany, £7 19s for Italy, Spain, and Gibraltar, and increase to £8 2s for Denmark and Sweden, and £3 5s for Norway and Poland. The highest charge is for Finland, amounting to £8 Ss. Other countries with which communication may be obtained nro Switzerland Belgium, Holland, Danzig, Luxembourg City, Czecho-Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, and Lithuania,