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In message <c29de194-0f15-4cdc-b2ab-c8d10fe5e...@scace.org>, Eric Scace writes:

>   Frequencies around 15 Hz were common on early 20th century cables, 
>depending on the degree of success in compensating for the inherent 
>capacitance on a cable thousands of miles long surrounded by conductive 
>sea water. Cable compensation is an entirely separate subject outside 
>the scope of a time-nuts forum.

In 1924 a new "continuously loaded" submarine cable from New York
to Azores did indeed provide the expected transmission rate 1920
letters per minute:

        https://archive.org/details/bstj4-3-355

It seems that people didn't really expect that, because it took a
couple of years to build terminal equipment which could exploit all
that bandwidth:

        https://archive.org/details/bstj7-2-225

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