CO129-510-6 Rates and tariffs of Hong Kong wireless service 10-2-1928 - 8-10-1928 — Page 21

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Enclosure No. 1.

RADIO CORPORATION OF THE PHILIPPINES,

PLAZA MORA GA,

The Postmaster General,

MANILA, P.I.,

29th November, 1927.

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Crown Colony of Hong Kong,

Dear Sir,

Hong Kong.

Under date of November 26th the Eastern

Extension Australasia & China Telegraph Company Limited, and

the Great Northern Telegraph Company Limited, of Denmark, wrote me in a joint communication as follows:-

"We have furthermore been instructed to inform you

that the Companies have decided to reduce the Cable

rates for traffic between the Philippines on one side. and Hong Kong & Japan on the other side, and rates

assimilated with the rates in force via Radio will,

therefore, immediately be introduced unless the Radio Corporation is prepared either to raise these Radio

rates to the level of the present Cable råtes or to intermediate figures at which the Cable rates will then

be fixed".

So far as the Radio Corporation of the

Philippines is concerned we are not in the least interested in meeting existing cable rate by upward revision of our own radio rates, nor in establishing a compromise rate which

would be uniform for all routes. In either of these two

cases, and also in case the Cable Companies make their

proposed