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It was at the beginning of 1980 that Mr. Oliver G. Robinson, the Director of the International Press Telecommunications Council invited European newspaper publishers to meet in London, to discuss the possibility of a test transmission of whole newspaper pages from one publishing centre to another inside Europe. The EUTELSAT’s research satellite, the European Orbital Test Satellite, which was being used for the transmission of other data, was available for the test. Until then the transmission of whole pages had only been possible by telephone cable and, since the link had to be rented round the clock, it was very expensive.
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Friedrich, E. (1983). The Newspaper Arrives by Satellite. In: Majus, J., Spaniol, O. (eds) Data Networks with Satellites. Informatik-Fachberichte, vol 67. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69030-3_14
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