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| 1960-1974: Satellite communications |
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1962
Telstar: launch of the first telecommunications satellite.
1963
Introduction of pulse metering (10 centimes per pulse) for local and trunk calls.
1964
Expo 64 in Lausanne: presentation of the first exchange to permit international direct dialling.
1965
USA: EARLY BIRD (Intelsat I), the first geo-stationary telecommunications satellite successfully goes into orbit.
Switzerland: record number of 44,822 new subscribers apply for a phone line.
1966
Subscribers in Montreux become the first to make international telephone calls by direct dialling.
1968
Advent of (PAL standard) colour television, starting with the winter Olympics in Grenoble.
1971
Switzerland boasts two million telephone subscribers.
First computer-assisted telegram service goes into operation.
1974
Satellite earth station goes into operation at Leuk in the Canton of Wallis.
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