AT&T to give public phones office skills

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AT&T develops the Public Phone 2000, a revolutionary pay phone, to be used by business travelers, that will offer a full-color computer screen and outlets for laptop computers and portable fax machines. Also, 30 percent of the Public Phone 2000's will be equipped with keyboards so that callers can enter and send text to distant computers through the phone line for a fee. The phones will be located in hotel and airport lobbies, and in major convention centers, where security will prevent vandalism. Callers will be able to use their AT&T phone cards or other credit cards to charge calls, but they will be able to insert the card into a slot instead of punching in the number. The phones have been tested in airports in New York and New Jersey, and will be installed by 1992 at the Dallas/Fort Worth, Orlando and San Francisco International Airports.

Computer-telephone integration, Computer telephony, Pay telephones, Pay telephone, Telecommunications Service, AT and T Public Phone 2000 (Telephone)

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AT&T plans to unveil a videophone for the home, industry analysts say

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AT&T plans to introduce a videophone product on Monday, Jan 6, 1991. The device was developed by Compression Laboratories Inc, San Jose, CA, which makes videoconferencing equipment. The new product is described as a phone that contains a camera and comes with a three-inch-square video screen. The price is expected to be about $1,500. Two such devices will be required to complete a call. Japanese companies are said to be working on similar products. AT&T showed a device called Picturephone at the 1964 World's Fair in New York, but the company has not yet offered such a product for use in the home. AT&T has offered a Picturephone Meeting Service since 1982. The service allows users to make video calls between AT&T video rooms.

Radio & TV communications equipment, Product Announcement, Telecommunications, Videophones, Communications Technology, Video Telephones, Compression Labs Inc.

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AT&T racing to boost power of fiber-optics

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AT&T controls over half of the fiber optic transmission equipment market, but the competition is heating up and the pressure is on to develop new products. The challenge for AT&T is to develop optical switches to eliminate the slow, costly and inefficient process of converting signals so they can be processed by electronic computing devices. Optical switching products will enable the full potential of fiber-optics to be unleashed. AT&T Chairman Robert E. Allen told a group of stockholders that the company will be shipping products using optical switching technology in five years. AT&T's main competition is from Japan in the form of NEC Corp and Mitsubishi Electric Corp.

Telephone companies, Fiber optics, Fiber optics industry, Optical communications technologies, Product introduction, Optoelectronic devices, Optical communications, Broadband, Telephone Company, New Technique, Optical Communication

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