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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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ny goods and services, including ex-panded and more sophisticated communication fa-cilities. Not too many years ago, I can vividly remembercanvassing a town in the south to determine futuretelephone needs, recalls one Southern Bell tele-phone man, No one wanted a telephone and didnteven know who hed call if he had one. Now werehaving trouble meeting all the requests we get. In thelast 10 years, the number of telephones in our fourseacoast states has more than doubled, and our in-vestment in facilities and equipment and long dis-tance calling has almost tripled. The tremendous increase in long distance callingis responsible for one of the largest cable projectsthe Bell System has ever undertaken, a $180 millionunderground cable that will be capable of carrying32,400 simultaneous telephone conversations. Thecable, running from Miami up through the seacoaststates to Boston, will relieve the over taxed commu-nications facilities that now tie together the east andthe rest of the nation. 20
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Economic growth makes newcable system necessary, butplanning makes it readywhen and where needed Although its only about the thickness of a mansarm, the Boston-to-Miami cable will be able to carrymore simultaneous conversations than any other longdistance transmission system now in existence. Andlike all other parts of the Bell System network, thenew cable will carry all forms of communications —voice, data, teletypewriter, telemetry and televisionsignals — without distinguishing between them. The spotlight is currently on the southern part of thecable route since the section from Miami to Washing-ton, D. C. is scheduled to go into service late this year.Most of the northern end will be completed next yearwhen the entire route will be interconnected withother coaxial and microwave systems that crisscrossthe United States. Field work on the project began more than twoyears ago when thousands of aerial photographs weretaken to determine where the 20-foot right of waywould slice thro

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