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Show Telephone Cable System Opened fo Public Service ' . new transatlantic telephone ,(,!,, system the first physical i voice llilk to be established h0-j h0-j moon North America and Europe vcs Inaugurated this week and Officials of American Telephone i'iui Telegraph Company in New Yiirk exchanged greetings over (ik Sl'J.OOO.OOO system with oft'i-Vlu" oft'i-Vlu" of tho British Post Office in London and Canadian officials i Ottawa. Their conversations, firrifii with the clarity and naturalness natur-alness of neighborhood calls, highlighted high-lighted inagural ceremonies held in the three cities. The cable system, under construction con-struction for more than two years is net only the first of its kind to O'ross the Atlantic, but the first underwater phone link to span any oeean. A.T.&T.. the l?ro and Canadian Can-adian Overseas Telecommunication Corporation 810 Prtrt,ul"s- 'n the historic project. The transatlantic system, which can carry 36 conversations simultaneously, simul-taneously, is able to handle about three times the traffic now transmitted trans-mitted between this continent and Great Britian by radio-telephone. The deep sea segment of the vstem extends 2.2S0 miles from Clarenville. Newfoundland, .to Oban. Scotland. From these two terminals, new land and water sections link the underwater circuits cir-cuits to the established networks in Great Britain. Canada and the United States. The largest cable-laying vessel afloat. HMTS Monarch, placed the underwater cables. |
