144
years after the invention of electric telegraphy, the last telegram
service in the world will shut down. This technology is still used in
India, where about 5,000 telegrams are sent down the wires daily. But on
July 14, it will...stop.
The BSNL board, after dilly-dallying for two years, decided to shut down the service as it was no longer commercially viable.
"We
were incurring losses of over $23 million a year because SMS and
smartphones have rendered this service redundant," Shamim Akhtar,
general manager of BSNL's telegraph services, told the Monitor.
What do you think the last telegram should say?
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