In 1860 the U.S. Congress arranged among the telegraph companies a competition to create a national line. The winner was Western Union. In the early 60s Western Union has put into operation transcontinental microwave system of data transmission via radio waves, completely replacing the web of telegraph poles and wires. Money transfer is a matter of minutes, at any distance. The Western Union Company is a financial services and communications company based in the United States. Western Union made so that the time in all of American civil services was the same. Western Union for more than 130 years provides money transfer services to its customers.