Telepoint

I am bemused by the media attention being focused on the fate of the telepoint services.

Telepoint will offer outgoing calls from a pocket handset.

CT2 is frequently referred to by the marketing name "Telepoint."

Telepoint is known as "the poor man's" cellular telephone because of its low price and lack of ability to receive incoming calls.

CT2 is a cordless telephony standard, also known by the marketing name "Telepoint".

Pagers are expected to be incorporated into telepoint telephones, offsetting the disadvantage of being able to make only outgoing calls.

A business can use such a system as, in effect, its own private phone company by installing its own telepoint stations in appropriate locations.

Mr Steadman believes Hutchison can resurrect the telepoint market despite the failure of rivals.

He says that until now the company's marketing drive has 'not been Telepoint led', and instead pitched at selling the handsets as 'a quality cordless phone'.

Installed telepoint networks provide two, four, or six telephone line capability multiplexed over forty voice channels in one indoor/outdoor cabinet, network control center, and business management/billing system.

In London, Nynex is a member of the Phonepoint consortium that introduced telepoint service in London this summer.

Around 300 workers are employed at the Yarm Road site and another 40 jobs are to be created shortly on the back of a telepoint service launch by the company.

Rabbit can be used as a cordless phone in the home or office, and, via a digital technology called telepoint, will also function as a limited mobile - or portable - phone.

The company, 65 p.c. -owned by Hutchison Whampoa of Hong Kong, announced the launch of Rabbit, its telepoint network business and a satellite-based paging operation.

The machine adds the capability to communicate on the Bi-Bop Telepoint network to the basic PowerBook, with the Bi-Bop modem supplied to Apple by the state phone company.

At the moment, Rabbit's British-made GPT phone is the only digital portable phone widely available in the UK, and the telepoint network it uses is the nearest thing you can get to digital mobile telephony.

Hutchison has already launched a successful telepoint system in Hong Kong, and compatible systems exist in Germany, France, the Netherlands and Denmark, and telepoint systems are on trial in Italy, Belgium and Portugal.

After pitching to and then signing with the Barclays Philips Shell Consortium (BYPS) in 1989, when BYPS sold the telepoint network business to Hutchinson in late 1990 Hook Advertising refused to sign over the copyright of the Rabbit logo.