Future phones
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Technological advances in the telecommunication industry, including the introduction of wrist phones, personal telephone numbers and picture telephones, will change the way society conducts itself. Voice-recognition technology may make it possible for users to verbally command a telephone to dial up a number, hang up or redial, making it safer for car phone users; voice recognition can be personalized to protect against unauthorized use. Picture telephones will require fiber optics to function properly and telephone companies reconsider introducing the technology after it failed in the 1960s because of inadequate equipment. Some observers foresee the time when personalized telephone numbers will be assigned like social security numbers; a number that stays with a person for life.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1990
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U.S. companies to aid in U.K.'s phone project
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Three consortia that include U S West Inc, Pacific Telesis Group and Motorola Inc have won licenses to develop and operate digital-based phone systems, a new generation of public mobile telephones. The consortiums' personal communication networks will be operated in England, and will allow residential and business customers to make and receive calls over privately owned, lightweight handsets while walking, driving or standing still. The low cost and convenience of the networks may eventually be a competitive alternative to both cellular services and to fixed-telephone networks by the mid- to late-1990s. Each network could be worth between $2.5 billion and $3.5 billion.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1989
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