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 60 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-TELECOMMUNICATIONS-DEC. 4, 1945 (ii) The Governments of the United States and of the United Kingdom and Canada will permit within their respective territories the private reception of such com- munications either through the recipients' own radio receiving installation or through other private installations. In the United Kingdom such permission may be condi- tional on the service not being offered to third parties except in the case of recognised news agencies. (iii) The Governments of Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India and the United Kingdom on behalf of her colonies will arrange for the reception of such communi- cations through the respective telegraph administrations and will retain the power to exercise their discretion as to the granting of permission to private recipients for the reception of such communications through their own installations or through other private installations. Note: The position of Southern Rhodesia under Section 13 is reserved. ARTICLE IV. CABLES. Section 14. (i) In order to secure the optimum development of tele- communications services, and in view of the important strategic role which cables as well as radio play in a co- ordinated telecommunications system, research and devel- opment work in both cable and radio communication shall be fostered and promoted. The use of improvements such as submarine repeaters and multi-channel operation shall wherever possible be encouraged. (ii) Inasmuch as the trans-Atlantic cables form an inte- gral part of a world telecommunication system, uniform procedures and techniques shall be adopted in their operation. The present arrangements for mutual con- sultation and co-operative action with respect to the trans-Atlantic cables shall be continued. ARTICLE V. STANDARDISATION. Section 15. The Governments of the British Commonwealth shall support a recommendation, to be made by the United States Government, to the International Telegraph Con- sultative Committee (CCIT) and the International Consultative Committee for Radiocommunications (CCIR) on the question of standardisation of modern Telecommunication methods along the following lines:- In order to further the development and wide-spread use of modern telecommunication systems susceptible to interconnection and interchange of messages and in the interests of conservation of the radio frequency spectrum, it is proposed that the CCIT study the establishment of Adoption of uniform procedures and tech- niques. 1641 Private reception.

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