WIRELESS TELEPHONY

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 46, 24 February 1930, Page 9

WIRELESS TELEPHONY

SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA

ANNOUNCEMENT EXPECTED

British, Official Wireless,

EUGBY, 21st February.

Wirelesstelephony is developing with remarkable rapidity. London is fast becoming the switchboard of the world. The Australian experimental service, which has been conducted by the Post Office from the Rugby and Baldock. wireless telephone stations to a spot near Sydney, Australia, has met with, great success, and-an official announcement regarding service will be made in the near future. Yesterday a new service was opened by the Post Office to the Vatican State via Rome. Recently the Isle of Man was linked to tho mainland, and it is expectea that a similar development will take place with regard to the Channel Islands. It is possible to telephone from Great Britain to ships at sea, and within a short time service will .be in operation between any .fixed 'telephone station and passengers lon main line express trains. Since tho single speech channel between this country and America was opened, just over a year ago, tho traffic has greatly increased, and now four-speech channels are in use. Even these are not sufficient for tho demand. Stockbrokers.and other business people have accepted the transatlantic tolephons as a necessary aid to business, and uae it for long calls daily, the present traffic being somewhere around a thousand calls daily. Work lias been started on a now transatlantic cable, which is to be available for telephony, and it It, expected to be completed soon. The British Post Office is leading Europe, if not the.world, in telephony, and is most anxious to fill the existing gaps. Linking up with othfer countries like Turkey depends to a great extent on the efficiency of the machinei-y and administration abroad.