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Show fy voice currents over 1,000,000 times. They are expected to operate oper-ate without attention for at least 20 years. Undersea Cable To Hawaii In Service Oct. 8 Telephone service between Utah and Hawaii is now as fast and dependable as a call within the United States. Tuesday, October 8, the world's longest and deepest undersea telephone cable system, linking the Mainland of the United States with Hawaii was placed in service. "The new cable will provide pro-vide improved telephone service on the hundreds of calls placed to Hawaii annually from Utah," J. D. Maher, Manager of the Telephone Tele-phone Company said. From now on an operator requested to place a' call, can punch a few keys on a small keyboard or spin a telephone tele-phone dial, and in a few seconds, the called telephone across the Pacific Pa-cific will ring, and the conversa-ti cific will ring, and the conversation conversa-tion will be as clear as a call next door. The $37,000,000 deep-sea cable system was jointly built by the American Telephone and Telegraph Tele-graph Company and the Hawaiian Telephone Company. It consists of two cables. One carries east-west speech and the other west-east speech. They cross the Pacific between Point Arena, California and Hanauma Bay near Honolulu. Each cable is 2,400 miles long, and reaches a depth in the ocean of three and one-half miles. Several years of research made construction of the system possible. pos-sible. Most of the research was devoted to the design of amplifiers ampli-fiers which are needed to boost the strength of voice signals.! These amplifiers are built info the J cables every 44 miles and ampli-i |
