Overseas Radio Extentions to Wire Telephone Networks

T HE progress which long-distance electric communication is making in tying the world together is perhaps nowhere more interestingly illustrated than in the developments which are now talcing place in the interconnection of widely separated wire telephone networks by means of overseas radiotelephone links. It was only a few years ago, in 1927, that telephone service was first extended across the barrier of the North Atlantic and a beginning made in the interconnection of the great telephone networks of North America and of Europe. R a p i d progress has been made since then in the further development of the North Atlantic facilities and in the extension of radiotelephone links from these wire telephone networks outward in other directions, until today such links span a large portion of the globe.