WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY
. .«. MARCONI SYSTEM PERFECTED. LONDON. February 17. The Times' New York conespondent j sent hib paper a column and a-half of news by marconigram. He understands that the service is sufficiently perfected ' to supply a similar weekly service. j Mr Marconi inaugurated his new wire ' less telegraphic ffervicc between England and Canada for press messages on October 17. Although the cable goes direct from London to New York, while the wireless ' goes by land to Clifden, on the West Coast , of Ireland, and by land from Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, to New York, the new system's charges arc little more than half the cable rates. Land charges to Clifden are jd a word for private messages, and land charges from Glace Bay to New York l£d a word. 1 Actual transmission across the Atlantic costs 5d a word for private and 2jd for press message's. The comparison with the cable, then, is as follows: — Land rates for press messages are. roughly, Is a hundred words to Clifden, and £d per word from Glace Bay to New York (id a word night J rates) : — Wireless to New York: Private. 7d per word ; press, 3d per word. Cable to New York : Private, Is per word ; press, 5d per woid.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 27
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208WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY Otago Witness, Issue 2814, 19 February 1908, Page 27
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