ABSTRACT
This chapter describes traffic transmitted and/or received in the radiotelephone and radiotelex services. Suitably equipped ships may use the international maritime radiotelephone service to connect with telephone subscribers on shore. This is achieved by using coast radio stations to access the local or international switched telephone networks. Radiotelegrams have to be written in the characters normally used in the country of origin and must contain an adequate address so that they can be delivered without requests for further information. Radiotelegrams must have a text and may contain a signature. The sender of an ordinary private radiotelegram may obtain priority in transmission and delivery by requesting the special urgent transmission and delivery. A radiotelexogram is a message sent by telex direct from a subscriber to a foreign land station for transmission to a mobile station, or a message sent from a mobile station to a land station for transmission by telex direct to a foreign subscriber.
