Prices of telegraphs

tags:: #culture #internet #economy projects::@standageTheVictorianInternet1998

“then prices stagnated at around one shilling per word in 1888, a price too expensive for many to pay. G” (Müller, 2016, p. 512)

I wonder if this is due to the fact that there was a technological limit on how many could be sent, rather than the owners of the cables trying to make money. It was mentioned in the article previously that they could only send one message on a cable at any time, so there had to have been a hard limit on how many could be sent.