Re: [telecom] Boston Coast Guard, yes COAST GUARD, phones are out

Wow. You'd think they'd have it working after nearly 100 years. The following article from 1921 describes ship-to-shore radio telephone service.

(The rest of the issue covers news of Southern Bell Telephone Company. Interesting writeups on conversion to dial service.)

Here is another article from Wireless Age

By 1950, Bell advertised that 13,500 vessels

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Posted 5 years ago by HAncock4 in General Telecommunications Forum

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