World-wide Telephony

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 19, 21 November 1930, Page 11

World-wide Telephony

New Zealand Services N important extension of the wireless telephone service between Australia and Great Britain and the Continent of Europe has recently been inaugurated, and telephony services are now available between Australia and all parts of the United States, Cuba, and certain parts of America.

Mr. BD. T. Fisk, managing director of Amalgamated Wireless, in an interview, stated that the improvements in radio telephony in recent months had been very great, and the company was now ready to undertake the Australian side of a radio telephony service direct with New York, Berlin, Paris, the Dutch Hast Indies, or Fiji, as soon as a license was received from the Government permitting this to be done. Considerable progress has been made with the tests being carried out with the wireless telephone transmitting equipment supplied to the New Zealand Government, and now installed at the Government radio station at Tinakori Hills, Wellington. Several successful conversations have been recently carried out between Australia and Mr. G. McNamara, secretary of the N.Z. Post and Telegraph Department. A wireless telephone talk which will be unique, has also been arranged between the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes, in London, and _ the Acting-Prime Minister, Hon. B.A. Ransom, in Wellington. Both the New Zealand and Commonwealth Postal Departments are working hard to have the service opened at an early date. '