1 After Samuel Morse sent his first public message over a telegraph line between Washington and Baltimore on 24 May 1844, telegraphy became a service widely accessible to the public. At that time, telegraph lines were not cross-border, but managed by each country at a national level, which required a high number of interconnection arrangements for setting up international telegraph links.2 After a series of regional conventions had been set in place (Regional Co-operation), 20 European governments gathered in Paris on 17 May 1865 and agreed on the International...
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