SUBMARINE TELEPHONE CABLES AND INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Laying submarine telephone cables is now one of the most rapidly growing industries in the world. Three cable-laying vessels have been or will be put into service in the six months from October 1962 to March 1963. New factories which will produce submarine telephone cable are being built in the Unit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: NICHOLS, R. T.
Other Authors: RAND CORP SANTA MONICA CA
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1963
Subjects:
Submarine Engineering
*TELEPHONE LINES
*UNDERWATER CABLES
*TELEPHONE SYSTEMS
TELEGRAPH SYSTEMS
TELEPHONE EQUIPMENT
OPERATION
COSTS
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0296067
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0296067
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Summary:Laying submarine telephone cables is now one of the most rapidly growing industries in the world. Three cable-laying vessels have been or will be put into service in the six months from October 1962 to March 1963. New factories which will produce submarine telephone cable are being built in the United States, England, and Japan. A new factory which makes the type of repeaters now used on United States telephone cables was recently completed. The value of the investment in long-distance submarine telephone cables was $210,000,000 at the end of 1962; during the next three years alone (1963, 1964, and 1965) cables will be laid with a value of $400,000,000. With allowance for a substantial growth in demand for overseas telecommunications services (but without allowance for the effect on volume of any future reductions in prices of such services), it appears that the present and projected telephone cable facilities will be adequate to meet demands on the North Atlantic route until 1965 and on other routes for a few more years.

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