Identifier: belltelephonemag4344amerrich (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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lephone and Telegraph Cor-poration. The Bell Systems cable ship, C.S. LongLines, placed the new cable in eight days.The route of the cable avoids the extremedepths of the Puerto Rican Trench, a gapingtrough that runs along the ocean floor northof Puerto Rico. Here, the Milwaukee Deepsinks 30,246 feet to form the deepest abyssin the Atlantic. U.S. telephone service with the VirginIslands and Puerto Rico has been handledover high frequency radio circuits and a tele-phone cable system to Puerto Rico laid in1959. But these existing facilities hadreached their maximum capacity; additionalcircuits were needed to handle the soaringvolume of telephone calls to and from PuertoRico and the Virgin Islands. The cable is part of a growing network de-signed to provide improved communicationsto key points in the Caribbean and SouthAmerica. Late this year, a 550-mile cable willbe laid from St. Thomas to Venezuela. Itwill connect with the Virgin Islands-mainlandsystem to furnish all cable circuits be-
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Above left: C. S. Long Lines, Bell System cable ship, about to pick up shore end of newtelephone cable linking mainland U. S. and Virgin Islands. Right: map of cable route. 57 tween the U.S. and Venezuela. Plans are also underway for an overthe-horizon radio relay system that would linkSt. Thomas, Antigua, St. Lucia, Barbados andTrinidad. A.T.&T. and ITT joint cable andradio facilities now in service to the Carib-bean area connect the U.S. mainland withCuba, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, the PanamaCanal Zone and the Virgin Islands, as well asA.T.&T. facilities direct to Nassau. Guam —Philippines Cable wm A deep-sea telephone cable providingbetter communications between theUnited States and Southeast Asia was placedin service December 15, linking Guam andthe Philippines. At Guam, the cable dovetailswith other cables to California, Hawaii andJapan. The new system, with a capacity of128 high-quality voice circuits, is a vital linkin an expanding network of undersea cablesin the Pacific

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