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==Early International Expansion==

==Early International Expansion==

AT&T started to expand internationally by supplying equipment to other telephone companies through its manufacturing subsidiary, the Western Electric Company and its affiliates around the world. By 1914, AT&T's manufacturing subsidiary established locations in Antwerp, London, Berlin, Milan, Paris, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Budapest, Tokyo, Montreal, Buenos Aires, and Sydney.<ref>[http://www.corp.att.com/history/history2.html A Brief History: Early International Activity]</ref> The new AT&T president Walter Gifford gave up the company's manufacturing business including its international locations except Canada and pursued the company's objective to provide a universal telephone service in the United States beginning in 1925. The company established its research and development subsidiary, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. By 1927, AT&T successfully launched its first transatlantic telephone service from US to London using radio which cost $75 while the transpacific telephone service between US to Japan was realized after a decade in 1937 at $39 for the first three minutes respectively. Both international telephone services can only accommodate one call at a time.<ref>[http://www.corp.att.com/history/milestones.html Milestones In AT&T History]</ref>

AT&T started to expand internationally by supplying equipment to other telephone companies through its manufacturing subsidiary, the Western Electric Company and its affiliates around the world. By 1914, AT&T's manufacturing subsidiary established locations in Antwerp, London, Berlin, Milan, Paris, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Budapest, Tokyo, Montreal, Buenos Aires, and Sydney.<ref>[http://www.corp.att.com/history/history2.html A Brief History: Early International Activity]</ref> The new AT&T president Walter Gifford gave up the company's manufacturing business including its international locations except Canada and pursued the company's objective to provide a universal telephone service in the United States beginning in 1925. The company established its research and development subsidiary, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. By 1927, AT&T successfully launched its first trans-atlantic telephone service from US to London using radio which cost $75 while the trans-pacific telephone service between US to Japan was realized in 1934 at $39 for the first three minutes respectively. Both international telephone services can only accommodate one call at a time. The company's TAT-1, the first trans-atlantic telephone cable was launched in 1956. It has the capacity to accommodate 12 calls at a time and price was set at $12 for the first three minutes and subsequently in 1964, the first submarine telephone cable TPC-1 was inaugurated. In 1965, the world's first electronic switch was installed. <ref>

[http://www.corp.att.com/history/milestones.html Milestones In AT&T History]</ref>

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