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IT is reported from Pittsburgh, Pa., that the Bell Telephone Co. has applied for a permit to install transmitters and receivers on what is called a ‘tie-up’ with existing telephone facilities. The company has applied to the Federal Communications Commission in Washington for permission to place transmitting and receiving equipment on the top of its Pittsburgh building and at certain suburban situations. With this service available, any private or commercial telephone subscriber could converse with the occupants of a properly equipped motor-vehicle moving on the street or highway within a radius of fifteen miles. Each truck or motor-car equipped for the service would have its own telephone number, and would be reached through a special operator, who would handle these calls. It is to be known as the ‘vehicular radio-telephone service’ (Elect. Rev., June 7).
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Vehicle Radio-Telephone Service. Nature 146, 91–92 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146091d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146091d0