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Are telegrams dead?

Are telegrams dead?

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…

Jul 09, 2013

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