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Letter: Letters : It's tough to talk

Published 27 April 1996

From Norman Gray, University of Glasgow

What is this “telephone” of which you speak (Editorial, 13 April, p 3)?
It must be a new version of that talking bone thingy that used to be so
popular.

However, with its unmemorable multidigit addresses (“You want my phone
number? Hang on, I’ve got it in a file here somewhere”), and the routing
problems you describe, it seems this new VoiceNet has some years to go before it
becomes a mainstream technology.

Wouldn’t it be simpler just to use e-mail?

Issue no. 2027 published 27 April 1996

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