EXPENSIVE RADIO TALK
Business men in London recently were discussing the longest and most expensive transatlantic wireless telephone call made since the service was inaugurated. Mr. F. B. Odium, a director of a group of New York electrical companies, who was staying in London, rang up a business associate in New York The call lasted 95 minutes and cost £285. An official of the transatlantic telephone service said that this was easily a record. Mr. Odium said: “I had a very good line. I was able to discuss many subjects, both business and personal. Since I have been here I have spoken over the transatlantic telephone several times. I suppose in all the service has cost me about £1,000.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 506, 8 November 1928, Page 13
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119EXPENSIVE RADIO TALK Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 506, 8 November 1928, Page 13
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