Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 ggr 9/12/83; site pyuxbb.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!microsoft!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!ariel!houti!hogpc!houxm!mhuxi!eagle!allegra!alice!rabbit!pyuxbb!ggr From: ggr@pyuxbb.UUCP Newsgroups: att.compete,net.misc Subject: Picturephone coming back? Message-ID: <213@pyuxbb.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Oct-83 12:23:21 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxbb.213 Posted: Mon Oct 24 12:23:21 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Oct-83 22:57:11 EDT Reply-To: prnews@whuxg.UUCP Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Piscataway Lines: 11 /***** whuxh:pr.presstp / mhwpd!prnews / 10:50 am Oct 19, 1983*/ AT&T PLANS TO REVIVE PICTUREPHONE SERVICE BY SHIFTING SUPPLIERS, Wall Street Journal, l0/l9, p.26. In an attempt to revive Picturephone, AT&T is getting a new video equipment supplier, Com- pression Labs. The new equipment is expected to be more efficient than the NEC America equipment currently used. This should reduce transmission costs for users by 40%. /* ---------- */