For a few months now, the mobile phone has been a real buzz in France and professionals are expecting a real consumer raid for the holidays. Users of radio messaging surged this year. Meeting in a café with two young people Hugo and Manuel on the interest of the beeper or pager (Tam Tam, Koobi), for their leisure, relations with their parents or keep abreast of the news.
In Chateauroux, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Indre has set up an office automation fair and a device caught the attention of Alain FONTANT who presents it on camera: it is a bipeur housing intended for employees of companies. Pictures of the salon and demonstration of the journalist.
Report on SIRCOM 95 or mobile phone and telecommunications exhibition. Presentation of the latest news: from the simplest to the most sophisticated: landlines, pagers or mobile phones.
In 1990, mobile phones for cars and motorcycles were still very expensive in France and the existing telecommunications network for mobile phones was already saturated. Martine SELLIN from France Télécom and Jean Jacques PEYRAUD explain the future mobile phone networks.
Le journaliste Dominique Verdeilhan s'entretient en voiture et au téléphone avec Jacques Girod-Roux, loueur de voitures équipées de téléphones : "Le téléphone en voiture s'adresse essentiellement aux hommes d'affaires, cadres dynamiques, qui viennent traiter leurs affaires à Paris dans un délai très court..."
France Telecom is testing in Paris the first digital telephone radio for the car and the city which is also European. Explanations by Bernard GHILLEBAERT, director of the GSM programme at France Télécom.
In Strasbourg, France Telecom is putting into circulation 2000 digital wireless telephones on an experimental basis. Explanations in pictures on this brand new mobile phone intended for an urban audience.
Paris City Hall and Matra have teamed up to design a new Parisian taxi from a Renault Espace vehicle equipped with a telephone and a television set available to the customer.
Présentation d'une automobile expérimentale qui propose à ses occupants un service de radio-téléphone grâce à son antenne située sur son toit. Grâce à ce dispositif, un homme d'affaire peut s'entretenir depuis sa voiture avec sa secrétaire.
Science fiction or reality? A new phone, the size of a television remote control, is about to be marketed on the market. It will soon be possible to call from anywhere. To present this new telephone, journalist Marc MAISONNEUVE calls Henri SANNIER from the Parc des expositions. Then he meets Marc BRUSSOL, from France Télécom.