CHEAP WIRELESS TO AUSTRALIA
OUTLOOK FOR THE PACIFIC CABLE COMPANY.
' London, March 13. ■I he British and Australian wireless proju <t is arousing wido attention. Press cable experts ?tute that the tralhc indicates there will bo room for both systems in the near future. It is unlikely that the interests of the l'aciiic Cable Company will be materially affected. flu connection with the proposal to link .Britain and Australia by wireless, tho managing director in Sydney ol the Amalgamated Wireless Company of Australasia Ltd., stated last week thnt duriu'" tin last year a. series of experiments to" lest the proposal on a commercial basis proved to be highly successful. Interviewed in London on the subject ol the Marconi Company's offer of cheap wireless messages, Mr. Godfrey Isaacs said: "It will be a most unfortunate thin" in the public interest if the fact that the Marconi Company will compete wifli the Pacific cable companies should lie to impede tbo development of nidustrv and science. Our offer of a wireless service between Great Britain and Australia, at one-third less than tho cable rare*, is mado without any qualification"'!
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 149, 19 March 1919, Page 7
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186CHEAP WIRELESS TO AUSTRALIA Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 149, 19 March 1919, Page 7
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