Is the moon far enough?
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This is a digitised version of an article from The Cayman Compass's print archive. Occasionally, the digitisation process introduces transcription errors, or other problems.
See the article in its original context from June 1967.
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Last September Cable and Wireless brought into operational readiness the first of a planned network of earth stations for satellite communications. This was on remote Ascension Island. By 1970, or earlier, it will transmit greetings from Apollo's crew to the world. In 1968 two further earth stations will have been built and brought into service -in Hong Kong and Bahrain.
Space-age communications are big-time, big league stuff. And Cable and Wireless can put up the big know-how and the big organization necessary to qualify. In fact, Cable and Wireless is the biggest international communications operator in the world.
Its 142,000 miles of cable and 160,000 miles of radio circuits criss-cross the globe. Every day its 10,000-strong staff handles thousands of messages in 55 countries through 80 international stations.
Cable and Wireless recently completed an ultra-modern cable and radio scheme in the West Indies, giving ten Caribbean islands direct inter-island and international links-links soon to be extended through a new Bermuda/Canada telephone cable to the north, and an extension of the radio system southwards to Guyana.
In the Far East Cable and Wireless and its Commonwealth Partners have just brought into full service the £23½M SEACOM telephone cable—a 7,000 mile extension to the transworld system which will bring more nations of the Commonwealth into direct, pick-up-the-phone, cable contact.
Airline signal centres, broadcasting systems, telephone networks, space communication stations, cable projects—Cable and Wireless engineers and operates them to make communication between distant places easier, clearer, quicker.
Whether you're in Muscat or Manila, in Santiago or San Juan, in Benghazi or Bermuda, or in a hundred and one other places, you will find a branch of the Cable and Wireless worldwide communications group. A Member of the Cable and Wireless worldwide communications group
