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Thailand Post discontinued telegram service on 30 April 2008, at 20.00 local time. Turkey: Yes – PTT has been providing telegram service in Turkey since 1855. Ukraine: No 2018 Ukrtelecom discontinued telegram service on 1 March 2018. United Kingdom: No 1982 After 1982, British Telecom maintained a telemessage service to replace telegrams.
Western Union telegram (1930) Western Union telegram sent to President Dwight Eisenhower wishing him a speedy recovery from his heart attack on Sept 26, 1955. A telegram service is a company or public entity that delivers telegraphed messages directly to the recipient. Telegram services were not inaugurated until electric telegraphy became ...
Western Union acquired its only major competitor in the American telegraphy sector Postal Telegraph, Inc. in 1945, effectively giving the company monopoly power over the telegram industry. After 1945 the telegraphy industry began to experience a decline, with total telegraph messages almost halving from 1945 to 1960.
On this day in 1911 the first telegram was sent around the world via a commercial service from the New York Times' office to test how fast a message could travel through a dedicated cable.
International Telegram or iTelegram provides telegram, telex, and mailgram service. [1] Initially, it was founded as Telegrams Canada in 2003 when AT&T Canada abandoned its telegram service. It expanded service into the United States as iTelegram following Western Union's termination of its telegram businesses in 2006. [2]
Telegram Messenger, commonly known as Telegram, is a cloud-based, cross-platform, social media and instant messaging (IM) service. It was originally launched for iOS on 14 August 2013 and Android on 20 October 2013.
This picture taken on 5 October 2020 shows the logo of mobile messaging and call service Telegram on a tablet screen in Toulouse, southwestern France (Getty Images)
In many English-speaking countries, a telegram delivery boy, telegraph boy or telegram boy was a young man employed to deliver telegrams, usually on bicycle. In the United Kingdom , these messengers were employed by the General Post Office ; in the United States , they worked for Western Union or other telegraph companies.