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25th September 1956: Inauguration TAT-1, the first transatlantic telephone cable
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:02:53
Publish Date: 2017-09-24 21:05:24
Description: The world’s first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system was inaugurated. Known as Transatlantic No. 1 or TAT-1, the £120 million system actually consisted of two identical cables to allow transmission in each direction. Prompted by the successful installation of a submarine cable between Florida and Cuba in 1952, a consortium of the UK’s General Post Office, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and the Canadian Overseas Telecommunications Corporation agreed to investigate the feasibility of a transatlantic cable. It was already possible to make a transatlantic telephone call when the 1,950 nautical mile long cable began to be laid in 1955. However, ...
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