Transatlantic telephone cable

Last year the American Telephone and Telegraph Company announced that the Bell Telephone Laboratories had perfected a deep sea telephone cable suitable for transatlantic operation. Work is now going forward actively on the development of a cable system of this type for connection between London and New York City and it is possible that this circuit will go in service as early as 1932. While the new cable will yield only a single telephone circuit, this will be one of maximum reliability, free from the variations characteristic of radio circuits. It is not the idea that the cable will replace radio circuits but it will add considerably to the reliability of New York-London service as well as adding to the total message capacity.