Nov 23 1963
From The Space Library
Communications satellites have been used for some time by AT&T to transmit a small portion of the overseas telephone calls that normally would have gone by underwater cable. After each call the telephone company would call up the user and ask him about the quality of his call. None of the users were told that they had talked via satellite, since part of the experiment was to test the user's psychological reactions and these might have been affected by such knowledge. Although the communications satellites are not licensed for commercial use, AT&T would pay the U.S. government a fee for the time used for the experiments. Only the medium-altitude Telstar and Relay satellites were used. (Finney, NYT, 11/24/63, 16)
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