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Identifier: belltelephonevol3132mag00amerrich (find matches)
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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ming July. Fin-land, which is now reached by meansof a switched connection in Sweden,will be served by a direct circuit fromNew York. The distances spanned by overseastelephony are vast. The path fromNew York to Buenos Aires, for ex-ample, stretches 5,300 miles, while that from San Francisco to Sydney,Australia, extends 7,400 miles. Thetotal mileage in an overseas connec-tion is often much greater than theoverseas link alone, because the voicemay be carried over long distancesby land lines at either end of thetransoceanic circuit. For instance, acall from the United States to Bom-bay, which is reached by connectingtwo radiotelephone channels atLondon, goes 8,000 miles eastwardfrom New York, but if the callingparty is in San Francisco, 3,000more miles have to be added to thecircuit. Improved Methods of Operation Because of factors which are pe-culiar to overseas operation, it isdifficult to have service always asspeedy, reliable, and easy to use asour own domestic long distanceservice.
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This is part of o)ie side of the overseas operating room in New York City 11 Bell Telephone Magazine SPRING Although English is used by the fading—which do not seriously affect operators here and abroad in estab- domestic circuits. lishing connections on the overseas In spite of these operational prob- links, language differences among cus- lems, overseas calls now are estab- tomers naturally introduce some dif- lished in about 15 minutes on the ficulties. Also, there are large time average, and for those between San differences in most cases: to the caller Francisco and Honolulu a speed of it may be noon, to the person at the about five minutes has been attained, far end of the line it may be evening These speeds represent great im- or even another day of the week, provement since the war. Moreover, the opposite ends of each A major factor in this improve- circuit are operated by separate or- ment has been the adoption of a ganizations which must join forces— simplified operating

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