New Telecommunications Technology

January, 1984

Phones, it seems, are no longer just for talking. Already, the menus being given out by the phone companies are starting to resemble a communications "Kama Sutra." If you can't use call forwarding, teleconferencing or data transmission, how about burglar detection and climate control? Phone services are quickly becoming the new status symbols, and it has not been lost on communications entrepreneurs that the central action in the second most popular film of all time was an attempt to &...