First Transcontinental Radio Voice Message

On October 21, 1915, The first transatlantic radio voice message was made by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company from Virginia to Paris. A year later, they held the first two-way conversation with a ship at sea, and in 1926, the first two-way conversation across the Atlantic. On January 7, 1927, commercial telephone service (using radio) began between New York and London. Over the next several years, service spread throughout North America and Europe.