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Era telegram service history, officially ended July 1 CROSS CITY - After more than half a century s


Era telegram service history, officially ended July 1 CROSS CITY - After more than half a century serving, telegram now part of the history of the country when Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) officially ending the service today. Discontinuance of the service had to be done due to high maintenance costs and compete during the development of communication technology. General manager TM Kelantan, Ab. Rashid Che Othman said, telegram service is currently only used by financial institutions to claim back their debts and it is extremely rare for public use. "Today is the last day we provide telegram service in this country. Today alone we sent about 1,000 telegram via TM Point Kota Bharu." On average we receive 600 to 700 telegrams sent by TM Point Kota Bharu from the bank or financial institution on a monthly basis and increased dramatically today because customers want to ensure telegram can be sent for the last time, "he told Utusan Malaysia here today. Ab. Rashid said, since 2000, a telegram sent by computer and no longer uses such as telex machines ancient times. He said this was due to the cost to repair the machine is very high and even the possibility of spare parts needed are also no more. "The price for each character for ordinary telegram is 10 cents and 20 cents per word for urgent telegram," he said. "We strongly feel the older generation TM telegram loss because it is a communication tool that is particularly important to convey the news of an emergency. However, technological developments make it now marginalized, "he said.
KUALA LUMPUR: THE telegram, which was part and parcel of Malaysian development singing telegram vancouver and progress for more then a century, has finally called singing telegram vancouver it a day. The advent of the Internet and in particular, email, has rendered the service, which served the nation and its people faithfully for the last 138 years, obsolete. Service provider Telekom Malaysia Berhad singing telegram vancouver announced in an advertisement on Sunday it was ending the service that same day. The first telegraph line was set up by the now defunct Department of Posts and Telegraph from Kuala Kangsar to Taiping singing telegram vancouver in 1874. It signaled the beginning of an era of telecommunications in the country. National Union of Telecommunication Employees president Mohd Jafar Abdul Majid said telegram service had faced many challenges. "Back in the 1970s and 1980s, the telegram was the only communication tool to send short text messages quickly, which made it one of the most important services in our service line." However, when fax machines, short-message services singing telegram vancouver on mobile phones and email were born, the aging telegram slowly lost its former glory. "So, because of these new tools, people stopped using the telegram," he said. Mohd Jafar, who has worked at Telekom Malaysia for the past 30 years, said in its final years, telegram services were only used by older organizations. "Old-timers stuck to the telegram because it ensured the message sent was received by the recipient. Services like faxes do not have this facility." As technology progressed, the telegram was simply unable to compete, "he said. Many countries have in recent years telegram ceased their own services. In the United States, communications giant Western Union ceased all telegram and commercial messaging services singing telegram vancouver on Jan 27, 2006. In the United Kingdom, the telegram service formerly provided by British Telecom was sold in 2003 to an independent company, Telegrams Online, which currently provides the service as a retro greeting card or invitation. However, in some countries including Japan, Belgium and Mexico, telegrams are still offered as a low-cost service for those who can not afford or do not have access to the Internet. This image has been resized. Click this bar to view the full image. The original image is sized 766x589.
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