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THE Minister responsible for the Belgian telegraph and telephone services, which at the present time are conducted by a self-contained department of the Ministry of Railways, Marine, Posts, Telegraphs, Telephones, and Aeronautics, has presented a report to his government indicating some of the difficulties which are experienced in providing adequately for the public needs in relation to these two services under the existing organisation of the department. Particularly, it has been found that the provisions of a law of 1846 dealing with the State finances are not sufficiently elastic to permit of the existing telegraph and telephone systems being maintained and developed with the degree of efficiency necessary in an undertaking of a commercial and industrial character, and consequently a new constitution is required for the conduct of these services. At the same time it is considered essential that the public telegraph and telephone systems in Belgium should continue to remain under State control.
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Proposed New Constitution for Belgian Telegraph and Telephone Administration. Nature 122, 790 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122790a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/122790a0