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  • The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills BIS said that 160 out of 257 regulations for retailers would disappear or be changed, including an amendment to the Wireless Telegraphy Act that obliges retailers to notify TV Licensing of any sales or rentals of television sets – the bane of generations of students.

    'Red-tape challenge' to liberate retailers from archaic regulations 2011

  • Cantor also voiced his opinion on future foreign assistance levels when he recently told the Jewish Telegraphy agency that a Republican Congress would defund aid to countries that did not share U.S. interests.

    Don Kraus: The House of Discontent Don Kraus 2010

  • Cantor also voiced his opinion on future foreign assistance levels when he recently told the Jewish Telegraphy agency that a Republican Congress would defund aid to countries that did not share U.S. interests.

    Don Kraus: The House of Discontent Don Kraus 2010

  • Privacy International alleges that Google violated the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act and the Wireless Telegraphy Act, both of which include regulations about the interception of communications.

    Scotland Yard Investigates Complaint About Google 2010

  • Semaphore flags were pretty close to real time as was Telegraphy (invented and brought to commercial use circa 1804-1837).

    A Tweet By Any Other Name: The Power Of The Real Time Web - Shelly Palmer - MediaBizBlogger 2009

  • The Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949, which is the means through which the BBC acquires the majority of its funding, is a piece of legislation which is so illegitimately repugnant in its abusive mechanisms that any civilised Government would have abolished it years ago.

    OPEN THREAD 2009

  • A N Micro, the UK distributor of the iTrip, said use of the device was prohibited under the Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1949.

    Boing Boing 2003

  • ‘On Submarine Telegraphy,’ through which the practical applications of the scientific principles for which he had worked so devotedly for eight years became part of general knowledge in the engineering profession.

    Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

  • Telegraphy was new at Milan, and the prices were intended to be almost prohibitory.

    An Autobiography 2004

  • In an article on “Mental Telegraphy” (he invented the name) he relates this instance, with others, and in

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

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