Summary - TST 25

TRANSPORTES, SERVICIOS Y TELECOMUNICACIONES


Key Words: History of telecommunications, telephone, public service, telephone networks.

[ Abstract ]

Early tests with telephones in Spain perhaps predicted a faster telephone public service implementation, as was happening in other developed countries of our surroundings. In Madrid, since 1878, there were several pioneers who presented projects to offer this new telephone service. That the different administrations were for long time undefined about the correct strategy to carry out with the new technology, finally had much influence –after several years pursuing the longed license– in that these entrepreneurs didn’t get it.