{"id":5162,"date":"2011-10-26T11:37:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T15:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=5162"},"modified":"2011-10-26T11:37:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T15:37:28","slug":"150-years-of-transcontinental-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=5162","title":{"rendered":"150 years of transcontinental communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday was the <a href=\"http:\/\/on.msnbc.com\/vFNGO8\" target=\"_blank\">150th anniversary<\/a> of the completion of the transcontinental telegraph in the United States, in 1861. It took another 20 years for the charter of the Canadian Pacific to permit trans-Canada messaging to be routed without transit through the US.<\/p>\n<p>Verizon&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/vodwhz\" target=\"_blank\">PolicyBlog has an interesting viewpoint<\/a> on this milestone.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Until the telegraph came in to being, it was impossible for messages to be relayed to people who were long distances apart any faster than the speed of a horse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But Verizon also makes important observations on characteristics that distinguish today&#8217;s networks from the amazing transformative impact of the telegraph. I recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/vodwhz\" target=\"_blank\">reading it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday was the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental telegraph in the United States, in 1861. It took another 20 years for the charter of the Canadian Pacific to permit trans-Canada messaging to be routed without transit through the US. Verizon&#8217;s PolicyBlog has an interesting viewpoint on this milestone. Until the telegraph came &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=5162\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">150 years of transcontinental communications<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>150 years of transcontinental communications &#8226; Telecom Trends<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Monday was the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental telegraph in the United States, in 1861. 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