TAT-4 was the fourth

transatlantic telephone cable A transatlantic telecommunications cable is a submarine communications cable connecting one side of the Atlantic Ocean to the other. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, each cable was a single wire. After mid-century, coaxial cable came into use ...

, in operation from 1965 to 1987. It operated at 384 kHz, initially carrying 128

telephone A telephone is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice, into e ...

circuits between

Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez () is a commune in the Vendée department, administrative region of Pays de la Loire, western France. Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez station has rail connections to Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie and Nantes. Population See also *Com ...

, (France) and

Tuckerton, New Jersey Tuckerton is a borough in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States, named for founder Ebenezer Tucker (1758–1845), and was a port of entry, but not the third Port of Entry in the United States, as is often described.Stemmer, Peter H"The Port of ...

(United States). It was co-owned by

AT&T AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas, Texas. It is the world's largest telecommunications company by revenue and the third largest provider of mobile tel ...

and

France Telecom Orange S.A. (), formerly France Télécom S.A. (stylized as france telecom) is a French multinational telecommunications corporation. It has 266 million customers worldwide and employs 89,000 people in France, and 59,000 elsewhere. In 2015, ...

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Infrastructure completed in 1965 Transatlantic communications cables France–United States relations AT&T buildings Orange S.A. 1965 establishments in France 1965 establishments in New Jersey 1987 disestablishments in France 1987 disestablishments in New Jersey {{Telecomm-stub