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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
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 43
Business Notes
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Entry-Level Phone Service
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<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.
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