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{{Short description|Transatlantic telephone cable}} {{Refimprove|date=May 2013}} '''TAT-3''' was the third [[transatlantic telephone cable]], in operation from 1963 to 1986. It had 414 kHz of bandwidth, allowing it to carry 138 telephone circuits (simultaneous calls). It was {{convert|3,518|nmi}} long, connecting [[Widemouth Bay]] in [[Cornwall, England]] to [[Tuckerton, New Jersey]] in the United States. It was owned by [[AT&T Corporation|AT&T]] and [[General Post Office|GPO]] (now [[BT Group|BT]]).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://atlantic-cable.com/Cables/CableTimeLine/index1951.htm|title = History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy - Cable Timeline}}</ref> It cost Β£12m <ref>{{cite web |last1=Burns |first1=Bill |title=TAT-3 |url=https://atlantic-cable.com/Cables/1963TAT-3/index.htm |publisher=The Atlantic Cable |access-date=28 January 2022}}</ref> in 1960 {{Inflation|UK|12000000|1960|fmt=eq|cursign=Β£}}.
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