Killed off by the cell phone.
The world's last telegram message will be sent somewhere in India on July 14. Stop.
That missive will come 144 years after Samuel Morse sent the first telegram in Washington, and seven years after Western Union shuttered its services in the United States. In India, telegraph services were introduced by William O'Shaughnessy, a British doctor and inventor who used a different code for the first time in 1850 to send a message.
The BSNL board, after dilly-dallying for two years, decided to shut down the service as it was no longer commercially viable.
"We were incurring losses of over $23 million a year because SMS and smartphones have rendered this service redundant," Shamim Akhtar, general manager of BSNL's telegraph services, told the Monitor.
Telegram helps people in many ways and now in its end. I personally myself don't know how it is operated but know it plays a great role in communication for the past decade. Sad to hear about this news.
Posted by: Kelly | Monday, June 17, 2013 at 06:01 PM