India signs off on the Telegram - Financial Times

From a vital tool for British officers in colonial India to the primary public means of cross-country communication in the post-independence years, the telegram in India has finally been rendered redundant by the country's mobile phone revolution. In 1869 Sir John Pender's British Indian Submarine Telegraph Company laid an all undersea cable to India, and in 1872 he formed the Eastern Telegraph Company, of which he was chairman until his death. A man in Britain receives a telegraph message from India, January 1909. A telegraph pole carrying the overhead telegraph to India in January 1909. An employee displays an antique telegraph transmitter key, which the operator uses to send messages using Morse code, at a telecommunications office in Bangalore. The Indian government will on July 15, 2013 discontinue the 160-year-old telegram service in the country. A customer (foreground left) fills in a form to send a message using the telegraphic service in Bangalore. An employee monitors an incoming telegram at in Bangalore. An employee sorts incoming telegrams printed on a continuous sheet of paper. An employee feeds in a telegram message on to a computer to be sent via telegraph. Employees feed telegram messages on to computers. Employees at the phonogram section transcribe voice messages from customers, which will then be sent to the receiving party as a telegram. A derelict name board for the Bangalore Telegraph office lies on the ground outside the telecommunications office in Bangalore. Previous image Next image Next Thumbnails Previous Thumbnails Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2013. You may share using our article tools. Please don't cut articles from FT.com and redistribute by email or post to the web. Share Clip Reprints Print via Technology - Google News http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFS1yw1CAZXMByPsaK-Upc7J7ZLYw&url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c8bc2a52-d4cc-11e2-b4d7-00144feab7de.html

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