The full list of companies joining British Telecommunications Plc and US West International Inc in the project led by the Soviet Union’s Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications to study the feasibility of constructing the first trans-Soviet fibre-optic telecommunications link connecting Europe and Japan – connecting several European countries across the Soviet Union with Japan and on to Southeast Asia and Australia via other cable systems (CI No 1,189) are the Australian Overseas Telecommunications Commission Ltd, Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co, Danish Great Northern Telegraph Co and Telecom Denmark; and Societa Finanziaria Telefonica pA of Italy.
