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...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...
Because STAR can be seen only by people who have their own satellite dishes (or a cable or microwave hookup linked with a dish), it is available primarily to the affluent. About half a million households are now able to receive the service, a number expected to grow to 4 1/2 million by 1993. But several Asian governments have launched campaigns to prevent STAR from introducing foreign programming and ideas to people long insulated by state- run TV. The government of Malaysia has announced a ban on private dishes, to protect its large Muslim population from contagion by "undesirable values...
...truly cable hungry may be turned away by the expense--$16.95 per month for the basic service plus a hookup charge, plus an extra nine dollars for each premium channel. But some are willing to sacrifice everything--including furniture--to satisfy their habit...
Wise said the final section of campus to receive telephone hookup will be the new DeWolfe St. housing complex...
Wise said DeWolfe was an unusual situation because each telephone line installed in the new dorms requires manual hookup instead of simply being switched on from the telephone office. Wise said he expects DeWolfe will have full service within days...