. Reproduced from the Report o/ Wireless Telegraphy Commission, (2) A chain to Australia consisting of new stations in Englaijd, Egypt, Singapore, and Australia, with a branch to Hong-Kong from Singapore. (3) A third station in England to communicate with Canada. (4) The stations to be planned by a Wireless Com- mission of about four members, the constructional work being entrusted to the Post Office and the corres- ponding Dominion and Indian Authorities. The Committee estimated that the total capital cost of the scheme, excluding the Canadian link and the existing Oxford-Cairo link, would be
. Reproduced from the Report o/ Wireless Telegraphy Commission, (2) A chain to Australia consisting of new stations in Englaijd, Egypt, Singapore, and Australia, with a branch to Hong-Kong from Singapore. (3) A third station in England to communicate with Canada. (4) The stations to be planned by a Wireless Com- mission of about four members, the constructional work being entrusted to the Post Office and the corres- ponding Dominion and Indian Authorities. The Committee estimated that the total capital cost of the scheme, excluding the Canadian link and the existing Oxford-Cairo link, would be £1,243,000, of which £853,000 would fall on the Imperial Govern- ment. from interference from other sources owing to the very limited number of "wave-lengths" available for long- distance working, and of these "wave-lengths," in any international agreement, only a proportion could be claimed for the British Empire. In other words, the Committee claimed that owing to the mutual inter- ference which is so easily caused by the signalling of high-power wireless stations, any Imperial scheme must be, for all practical purposes, a monopoly, and though there might be objections to a Government monopoly, there were greater objections to a private monopoly. In the case of cables this monopoly ques- tion does not, of course, arise, as there is no mutual interference, and, therefore, no limit technically to the
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