Talk:TAT-1

Until TAT-1, the transatlantic telephone service was radio-based; started in 1927, it cost £9 for three minutes and took around 2000 calls a year. What does it refer to? Did the old radio-based calls cost £9, or did TAT-1 calls cost that? The sentence, as written, is unclear. -- RoySmith (talk) 13:15, 16 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

A similar phrasing is used here - Transatlantic telephone cable

"During this period the transatlantic telephone service was radio-based; starting in 1927 it cost £9 (or roughly $45 USD) for three minutes and handled around 2000 calls a year."

I can see what is meant but both need re-writing --jmb 13:26, 16 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

Yeah, somebody messed it up bad, a long time ago, in both articles. Last month I repaired the mistaken conversion from pounds to dollars in the other article but didn't notice the dreadful syntax, or this one. So, just now I repaired this article and moved half the radio information out of that article and into this one. This is on the theory that Transatlantic telephone cable is mostly about lists and comparisons, while ancient historical narrative belongs more in this one. The main alternative that occurs to me is to merge the articles, but the things I did went the opposite direction and reinforced the distinction between the two articles. Anybody prefer the merger direction, or something else? Jim.henderson 16:51, 16 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

"The first telephone circuit with New York opened in January, 1927, when the long-wave telephony transmitter at Rugby was brought into service. The charge for a call was £15 for three minutes, with a report charge of £2." - Sutherland, A.G. (1957), Operating the New Telephone System, Post Office Electrical Engineers' Journal, Vol. 49 No. 4, January 1957, page 456. Please feel free to use this if it helps. (This issue of the POEEJ was dedicated to TAT-1 and has 180 pages on it.) --Harumphy 20:40, 20 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

I did not see a page on transatlantic and other long distance radio telephone traffic. --jmb 17:41, 16 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

I don't see it either. Just a couple sentences in the cable article. Anyone got enough sources to make a whole paragraph? Jim.henderson 16:17, 20 June 2007 (UTC)Reply

is it worth merging all the TAT projects into one article, rather than having 14 seperate stubs. If nobody objects i'll start creating a page —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.26.255.210 (talk) 13:04, 28 July 2009 (UTC)Reply

Improvements / discussion needed. The original TAT-1 channel plan was based on 2 kHz spacing which was later repaced by 3 kHz channels after the introduction of additional capacity via TAT-3. When TASI was introduced in the early 1960's then 36 standard 4 kHz channels were introduced, which TASI would enhance to 72 interpolated channels under normal traffic, and 80-96 channels in "emergency" situations (e.g.failures of other transatlantic cables / capacity)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Thanet Man (talk • contribs) 15:23, 23 June 2013