to America, Prince Henry of Prussia sent a message to President Roosevelt thanking him for hosting him. The message was never delivered because a Marconi equipment operator refused to send it based on the aforementioned corporate mandate. The now highly-agitated prince told his brother Kaiser Wilhelm about this development, and the German government quickly proposed an international conference to discuss regulating maritime communications. This first international meeting produced a proposal that all stations should accept messages form any ship regardless of what equipment was used. This lead to another conference in 1906 at which the US Navy effectively debunked the claim by Marconi that equipment from different manufacturers was incompatible, and all participants agreed to be “vendor The Journal of Electronic Defense | August 2013 ever, the rapid growth of radiotelegraphy quickly turned into a land-grab as Marconi went to great lengths to cement its position as the preeminent purveyor of radiotelegraphy equipment. The company set up numerous shore stations at key spots around the world and instructed its employees not to handle traffic that originated from equipment other than its own. This plan backfired in 1902 when having just ended a visit 29http://www.naylornetwork.com/jed-nxt/index.asp