TAT-2

TAT-2 was AT&T Corporation's second transatlantic telephone cable. It was in operation from 1959 to 1982, initially carrying 36 telephone circuits (simultaneous calls) between France and Newfoundland.[1]

References

Film on the construction of the cable system AT&T Archives: Cable to the Continent, a 1959 film about the second transatlantic telephone cable

  1. Hills, Jill. Telecommunications and empire. p. 57.


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