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Identifier: belltelephonemag00vol2930amerrich (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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lDart of its ultimate capacity—arcplanned for operation initially in thesection west of Chicago. Completion of the transcontinentalsystem will make it possible for theirst time for hundreds of people to talk and for millions of people to seeby radio from coast to coast. Thisis indeed a momentous engineeringachievement. It brings to the publicthe benefits of the coordinated re-search, development, manufacturing,construction, and operating programof the Bell System in further harness-ing the laws of nature and developingthe use of the radio spectrum, one ofthe natural resources of the country,to provide improved communicationfacilities to the nation. Several wire routes, two of whichare cable, already connect the Eastand West Coasts. But additionalfacilities are needed, and radio re-lay is being used for this new trans-continental system because it affordsan economical means of providingthem. This does not mean that radiorelay will replace existing means of 2l6 Bell Telephone Magazine
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1950-51 Spanning the Continent by Radio Relay 217 wire communication. On the con-trary, wire facilities will continue toprovide the bulk of the nations com-munication facilities for the foresee-able future. Radio relay will be usedin preference to other forms of com-munication where this appears to af-ford definite advantages. The deci-sion will be based in each case on aconsideration of all the factors in-volved, including cost, reliability ofservice, and performance. This long-run policy will thus continue to insurethe telephone-using public of the bestpossible service at the lowest possiblecost. Widening Radios Field Until quite recent years, radio hasproved useful in the Bell System prin-cipally as a means of communicatingwith ships and other mobile units andwith points that could not readily bereached by wires; but the develop-ment of new radio relay systems hasgreatly broadened its field of use.Wires and radio have in common,however, the fact that research anddevelopment over th

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