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World Service,12 May 1988,8 mins

Celebrating Global Telecommunications

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On 17 May, it's World Telecommunications Day and the theme this year is 'The transfer of technological knowhow in the age of electronics'. The laying of the first fibreoptic transatlantic cable recently is a measure of how far telecommunications has come in the 123 years since the first international agreement was signed.

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