1 JANUARY 1927, Page 7

The Post Office will soon open wireless telephone communication with

America at the rate of £5 a minute. One fancies that conversation at this rate will make people feel that their words are distilled gold. Probably new methods of talking will be practised A person using a telephone will write down what he has to say before he telephones, and read it out in the manner of a broadcasting lecturer. Again, one can foresee that complaints about mechanical imperfections will reach a heartfelt—and pocket-felt—intensity, to which com- plaints about our domestic telephone system will afford no parallel. Still, it will be a truly marvellous develop- ment to have private telephoning across the Atlantic.

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