SUBMARINE TELEPHONE CABLES AND INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Abstract

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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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1963
Accession Number
AD0296067

Entities

People

  • R. T. Nichols

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Central America
  • Channel Capacity
  • Communication Systems
  • Electron Tubes
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • New Jersey
  • New York
  • Puerto Rico
  • Standards
  • Telephone Lines
  • Telephone Systems
  • Terrain
  • Underwater Cables
  • United States
  • Virgin Islands

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  • Electrical Engineering
  • European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).
  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting