TELEPHONING TO NEW YORK.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 159, 14 October 1910, Page 3

TELEPHONING TO NEW YORK.

CABLES THAT MAY REVOLUTIONISE PRESENT CONDITIONS. "Is that New York'? This is London." iSo we shall be speaking over the telephone before longj if- the new submarine cable which was recently laid across the Channel by the . British* Post Office answers expectations., . The new cable, which extends from Dover to Cape Giisnez, is the first of its kind laid in tidal waters, although a similar cable :was previously laid in the Lake of Constance. It will be brought into regular use as soon as the corresponding French land lines are completed. The tests so far made have given very satisfactory results. ' The electrical conditions of submarine cables make telephonic communication through them difficult as compared with | communication carried on over land lines, and any improvement in their efficiency will have a marked effect in extending the distance through which telephonic speech is possible. In the case of the new cable its efficiency has been increased more than 1 three times by the insertion of "loading coils" in the cable at intervals of one knot. The coils mince the distortion of the current impulses which correspond to the spoken sounds, and so render the speech more distinct. The French Government propose to lay a second new cable across the Channel, and it will thus be possible to provide for the increased traffic likely to result from the reduction of charges for conversations between England and France which will then take effect.