Show Telephone Companies Form Group to Foster Roster Post War Post W ar Service Improvements A joint committee of representatives representatives representatives of Bell Dell and Independent ent operating telephone companies compan compan- ies throughout the United States has lias been formed to advance the wide nation-wide post war program which the various telephone companies have been working on to extend and Improve Improve Improve Im Im- Im- Im prove farm telephone service It was announced this week Co-chairman Co of the thc committee commit commit- tee are John P. P Boylan Doylan president president president dent of the United States Independent Independent Independent Inde Inde- pendent Telephone association the national organization of the thousands of independent telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone companies an and Keith S S. S McHugh vice of the American Telephone and Telegraph Tele Tole- Telegraph graph company representing the Bell operating companies Rural telephone service Is Ismore ismore more highly developed In this country under the American system of oC free ent enterprise than thanin in any other country in the world Mr 11 Boyland Doyland and Mr McHugh said In a statement Is Issued issued issued is- is sued by them for the committee However it is by no means as highly developed as we In Inthe Inthe inthe the industry want to see it and amI the industry intends to do everything everything everything every every- thing in its power to pro provie more service and better service at a acost acost acost cost which farmers can afford afford Since operating telephone comp companies throughout the whole country have been working on this problem a representative joint committee h has ha's s been formed form form- ed cd consisting of or a. a number er of or their most officials We Wo believe that thai the application of now new facilities and methods which were under development by br the industry before the demands demands demands de de- mands of oC war interrupted our research and construction program program program pro pro- gram will help to bring telephone sert service ser ice to many new farm customers cus cus- As soon as war demands are reduced wo we propose to resume re- re sumo sume and expand our research efforts and along with It the intensive program for extending farm service which was being carried on before the outbreak of hostilities million miles Aver p one half of or telephone pole lines Hues serving have o been rural areas already t. t built so that more than two- two thirds of all families In the United States can be served from I existing lines Since 1935 more mor the additional families in rural areas have become telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone subscribers subscribers subscribers-an an increase of oC 35 per cent One of the major objectives Is to continue this i upward trend by making the service over existing lines In Increasingly increasingly In- In valuable and tive live This the industry intends to todo todo todo do to the limit of its a ability A second major objective is isto isto isto to extend service at reasonable cost to families not now reached by existing lines The telephone industry research in the last several several sev sev- eral years has successfully developed developed developed devel devel- new materials and methods which substantially lower lowel the cost of bf f building wire lino line to areas not previously reached In addition work was started by the industry in 1938 to develop a practical system o of transmitting telephone conversations conversations conver I over electric power lines A similar system can be used over o telephone lines to Increase their capacity This so-called so rural rural rural al carrer system transmits a very high frequency current over the wires From 1940 1940 on experiments men ments ts with this system for telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone service over rural power lines were carried forward in ina a cooperative effort of Bell Telephone Telephone Telephone Tel Tel- ephone laboratories and antI the Rural Electrification tion Before this work was Interrupted Interrupted in interrupted In- In by the war it was clear that a suitable system of this kind could be bc produced One practical effect of oC these developments Is to make it physIcally physically physically phys phys- possible to furnish telephone telephone tele tele- phone service wherever there are arc rural power lines and no tele- tele phon lines The telephone companies companies com com- plan in cooperation n with R. R E. E A. A cooperatives and with power companies serving rural areas to determine the full extend extend extend ex ex- ex- ex tend to which rural carrier telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone service can be used economically economically eco eco- and effectively The telephone companies also plan to study the possible application application application cation of radio systems systems sy- sy terns to rural telephone service and to make use of this and any other new methods which willbe will willbe willbe be helpful in service to the farmers |