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Their lust for business last week befuddled the much badgered Federal Radio Commission. Two of the companies-the I. T. & T. (through its subsidiary Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co.) and R. C. A. demanded the right to set up wireless telegraph stations and sell service between cities in continental U. S...
The I. T. & T. wants to make such land wireless service cover the continent. Through Charles Evans Hughes Jr. it demanded of the Federal Radio Commission 60 short wave wireless channels.*
The members of the Federal Radio Commission last week listened to these demands. They listened also to two other and similar demands-from Inter-City Radio Telegraph Co. of Cleveland for 50 stations, from Universal Wireless Communication Co. of Buffalo, a new concern, for 125 stations.†
These demands put the Federal Commission in quandary. Wireless experts figure that 208 short wave wireless channels can be used for communications within the U. S. Of that number 43 are now being used by foreign countries and so are forbidden to U. S. commercializers. Not enough channels are available...
Then there is the interstate business that these companies want to do. In such respect the radio commissioners realized that they must be circumspect in their judgments-not to infringe on the surveillance and authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission...