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TELECOMMUNICATION (WIRELESS TELEGRAPH)

• Convention, supplementary agreement, and final protocol signed at Berlin November 3, 1906^[1]
• Senate advice and consent to ratification April 3, 1912
• Ratified by the President of the United States April 22, 1912
• Ratification of the United States deposited at Berlin May 17, 1912
• Entered into force July I, 1908; for the United States May 17, 1912
• Proclaimed by the President of the United States May 25, 1912
• Replaced by conventions and protocols of July 5, 1912,^[2] November 25, 1927,^[3] and December 9,1932,^[4] as between contracting parties to the later conventions and protocols
• Terminated definitively May 15, 1933^[5]

37 Stat. 1565; Treaty Series 568

[TRANSLATION]

International Wireless Telegraph Convention Concluded Between Germany, the United States of America, Argentina, Austria, Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Denmark, Spain, France, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Monaco, Norway, The Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Roumania, Russia, Swededn, Turkey, and Uruguay

The undersigned, plenipotentiaries of the Governments of the countries enumerated above, having met in conference at Berlin, have agreed on the following Convention, subject to ratification:

Article 1

The High Contracting Parties bind themselves to apply the provisions of the present Convention to all wireless telegraph stations open to public service between the coast and vessels at sea—both coastal stations and stations on shipboard—which are established or worked by the Contracting Parties.

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1. For text of service regulations, see 37 Stat. 1581.
2. TS 581, post, p. 883.
3. TS 767, post, vol. 2.
4. TS 867, post.
5. Date by which all parties to the 1906 convention had become parties to later conventions.

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