Pay phones in Japan now work with IC cards

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Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT) plans to put up 1,000 pay phones across Japan that will accept payment through IC cards. By Mar 1999, the pay phones would be installed on railway stations, airports and hotels throughout the suburbs of Tokyo and Kansai. The IC cards are similar to the prepaid magnetic cards that Japanese consumers use to make calls from pay phones. However, instead of having an IC chip with terminals, the NTT cards have an antenna within the card. This design allows for non-contact operation with information being transmitted through the air.

Wired Telecommunications Carriers, Expanded capacity, plant expansion, Misc Telephone Svcs, Telephone services

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Optical device demand bubbles up in marine projects

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FDK will increase its monthly output of optical isolators to 10,000 units during the first half of 1999. The move is in response to growing demand for optical devices used in underwater cable networks and terrestrial backbone networks. Half of the 10,000 units would be manufactured at its factory in Shizuoka, Japan, while the remainder would be made by a subsidiary in Sri Lanka. Besides isolators, FDK also produces circulators, switches, composite modulators and other optical devices.

Product development, Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing, Fiber Optic Instruments NEC, Fiber optic equipment

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