Business Talks by Radio

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 15, 24 October 1930, Page 6

Business Talks by Radio

Conversation Electrically Recorded A MALGAMATED Wireless (A/asia), Ltd., the company which operates the wireless telephone service between Australia and England, has been informed of an ingenious stratagem adopted by a Melbourne firm to obtain a permanent record of a conversation conducted between Melbourne and .Birmingham. Being advised that a call was coming through from Birmingham, the Melbourne firm arranged to have an electrical recording instrument tapped in their telephone circuit during the whole of the conversation.

$$ $$-$----- ae EE et EE CE NE CZ The telephone discussion concerned detailed figures and _ specifications, which were recorded, and which constituted an accurate statement of the business which could be dealt with when the time factor did not involve the charge of £2 a minute. Verbatim reports of the conversation have, it is understood, been sent from Melbourne to Birmingham, and the firm intends to place this and future recorded conversations on the office files.for. reference. This is believed to be the first occasion on which a long-distance call of this nature has been electrically recorded. Radio experts look forward to the time in the near future when such a record will prove in business dealings as binding as the written contract.