. Bell telephone magazine . the purpose of war-time preparedness. Both taxes have beenat the ten per cent level since 1954. Lastyear, communications customers paid almost$1 billion in Federal excise taxes. For telephone customers, the benefits ofthe repeal will be automatic since excise taxcharges have never been included in tele-phone rates. When the reduction takes effect,it will be reflected immediately in lower tele-phone bills. Fourth Transatlantic Cable ■ The C. S. Long Lines, Bell System cableship, began laying the fourth trans-atlantic telephone cable to Europe on June18. First to link
. Bell telephone magazine . the purpose of war-time preparedness. Both taxes have beenat the ten per cent level since 1954. Lastyear, communications customers paid almost$1 billion in Federal excise taxes. For telephone customers, the benefits ofthe repeal will be automatic since excise taxcharges have never been included in tele-phone rates. When the reduction takes effect,it will be reflected immediately in lower tele-phone bills. Fourth Transatlantic Cable ■ The C. S. Long Lines, Bell System cableship, began laying the fourth trans-atlantic telephone cable to Europe on June18. First to link the United States with con-tinental Europe, the $50 million cable systemwill stretch 3,575 nautical miles from Tucker-ton, , to St. Hilaire-de-Riez, France. Scheduled for service next fall, the cablewill have a capacity of 128 voice-grade cir-cuits. More than half of these will be usedfor telephone message traffic with France,West Germany and other countries in con-tinental Europe. The rest will carry data, tele- 65.
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