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Western Union telegram (1930) Western Union telegram sent to President Dwight Eisenhower wishing him a speedy recovery from his heart attack on Sept 26, 1955. A telegram service is a company or public entity that delivers telegraphed messages directly to the recipient. Telegram services were not inaugurated until electric telegraphy became ...
ISIS has used Telegram for recruiting attempts with some cells recommending the app [262] to their followers. In France, initial investigations [263] of a terrorist act revealed the perpetrators used Telegram to communicate, though follow-up research suggested that the extent of the app's use was "unclear". [264]
The telegram started traveling and was relayed by 16 operators across the globe and circled back to its origin in 16.5 minutes. See the gallery below showing the evolution of communication technology:
Thailand Post discontinued telegram service on 30 April 2008, at 20.00 local time. Turkey: Yes – PTT has been providing telegram service in Turkey since 1855. Ukraine: No 2018 Ukrtelecom discontinued telegram service on 1 March 2018. United Kingdom: No 1982 After 1982, British Telecom maintained a telemessage service to replace telegrams.
Electrical telegraphy is a point-to-point text messaging system, primarily used from the 1840s until the late 20th century. It was the first electrical telecommunications system and the most widely used of a number of early messaging systems called telegraphs, that were devised to send text messages more quickly than physically carrying them.
Western Union acquired its only major competitor in the American telegraphy sector Postal Telegraph, Inc. in 1945, effectively giving the company monopoly power over the telegram industry. After 1945 the telegraphy industry began to experience a decline, with total telegraph messages almost halving from 1945 to 1960.
January 22, 1848 map in New York Herald showing extent of existing and planned North American telegraph lines. At this time, the service area for the United States reached Petersburg, Virginia in the south, Portland, Maine in the northeast, Cleveland, Ohio in the northwest, and as far west as East St. Louis, Illinois.
An arrest warrant said Telegram had been used for money laundering, drug trafficking, and crimes against minors, among other offenses, the Associated Press reported.