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- <text id=92TT0454>
- <title>
- Mar. 02, 1992: Business Notes:Telecommunications
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Mar. 02, 1992 The Angry Voter
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 43
- Business Notes
- TELECOMMUNICATIONS
- Entry-Level Phone Service
- </hdr><body>
- <p> In northwest Mexico without your own phone? No problem.
- "Virtual telephone service" to the rescue. Come spring you can
- get your own number and confidential voice mailbox and, by
- calling from any public phone, retrieve messages left by other
- callers. The Trilogue system, patented by Comverse Technology
- of Woodbury, N.Y., provides instant hookup in areas where
- expensive phone installation may take months, even years. "I
- call it entry-level service," says Comverse spokesman Paul
- Baker. "We're bringing the modern telephone to the grass roots."
- </p>
- <p> The novel contract with Mexico's Telmex phone company
- calls for 1,000 electronic mailboxes in each of three cities:
- Tijuana, Mexicali and Ensenada. Potentially, Trilogue could
- service scores of other Mexican urban areas that have the
- prerequisite pay-phone networks. Farther afield, Comverse is
- eyeing markets in developing countries from South America to the
- Far East. The company has links with major distributors like
- Samsung in Korea and Oki in Japan, as well as Alcatel, the
- French telecommunications giant, which rang up the Mexican deal.
- </p>
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