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    Are telegrams dead?

    The Economist
    July 9, 2013 6:25AM ET
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    ON JULY 15th India will become the latest country to shut down its official telegram service. The first message sent by telegraph in India was in 1850, and the direct descendant of that service is now in the hands of BSNL, a state-run telecoms operator…


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