European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                � Norm into no t kit parts 1 a Ngow picked up by Tao Pitone and i Pia Yeo to known As Fourier Only ii i Towa engine Rritt lot a  a win can to Rah Zed Ruma yupik Adown �  loudspeakers to fire anti noise at a troublesome transformer. According to Warnaka of applied acoustic research anti noise applications include cancellation of external air plane noises especially around Airport neighbourhoods the rumbling of military tanks guns and troop carriers and manufacturing noises aboard Nasa s space station which is scheduled to be launched in the net decade. Perhaps the Moit futuristic and often secretive use of the Mirror image wave technique centers on the creation of anti vibrations in solid structures and fluids rather than anti noise in air. This would Stow the throb of heavy machinery to be silenced at sea the Hope is to be Able to produce boats ships and submarines whose machines transmit Lew vibrations to the water foiling enemy hydrophones used to track potential targets. A key area Lor future anti vibration application is space according to Crocker of Auburn University which has contracts with the Pentagon s strategic defense initiative organization to study Active vibration control in Large space structures. If you re generating electricity in space the vibration could be quite severe he said. The application of Mirror image Waves was t taken very seriously for a Long time Crocker added. With the new electronics it s All becoming  the new pay phone it even talks by Jerry Schwartz new York times Hen it comes to pay telephones in the United slates most Consumers Are conservative and Happy with anything that works. "11 you Are walking toward a payphone you Aro thinking about who you want to Call and the Telephone number and what you want to say said Marc Ostrofsky publisher of payphone Magazine. You Don t want to be distracted by having to figure Oul How to use the  nevertheless the homely pay Telephone is changing Independent pay phone operators Are turning to new technology to compete with the established Bell operating companies and equipment designers have joined the telecommunications revolution that is lining american Homes offices and even cars with telephones bristling with new features and functions already available on a limited basis is a new generation of pay phones ready to give callers verbal instructions present advertising messages and operate with computer like video displays. Others accept a variety of credit cards operate in taxis and limousines and Tel users choose among the competing Long distance services offered by companies like a.t.&t., Sci and u s sprint. Pay phones Are also being deployed on trains Jet aircraft and ships. Some new pay phones have technology that would be exotic even in new Otico communications systems message phone inc. For example has a feature that can continue to dial a Busy Telephone number Long alter the caller has left the pay phone the pay phone records a message from the caller and then redial the Busy number for up to two hours until a connection is established and the recorded message is played. Some 500 of the units have been installed in Washington Dallas and Charlotte , analysis expect deployment of the new technology to go slowly. The main reason is that the Bell operating a computerized Par phone a a credit card Tot now visit Trimi told the monthly Cost of it eng Long distance what the our largest Long distance Phona companies Bill typical customers deembr19fl4 december 1986 residential business residential business $73.36 $149.77 $65.04 $120.35 Sci 67.15 131.03 63.32 111.27 04.56 128.76 62.26 108.15 Pic item Union 64.40 130.01 68.79 112.44 stud on Zumpfe Mil of Tow tiling it isms of Modt Lily it try no Gentul and Simili by Mil us Sou a companies thai own most of the nation s Public telephones Are in no hurry to replace old but functional installations. We be done some surveys and people will go out of their Way to avoid a Phona they Aren t familiar  said Beverly Hollifield. Manager of Public communications Lor the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph company a subsidiary of the Bel South corporation that operates 7,000 Public phones. A second Damper on change is the adversarial relationship Between the Bell operating companies which own 1.6 million pay telephones and the independents which own 100,000. The Bell companies have Little incentive or desire to provide technical services that would make life easier Lor the independents. As a result the independents Are forced to divert their technical focus from new products to ways of compensating Lor the difficulty of operating outside the Bell networks one dispute Between the independents and the Bell operating companies is Over the electronic signal that the Bell companies pay phones receive when a connection is made. The signal tells the phone to collect the Money deposited or to return it if no connection is made. Most regional Bell companies have walked at providing such a signal to the Independent pay Phona operators contending thai their Only obligation under the rules Laid Down by the Federal communications commission is to provide a connection. The independents have compensated by developing special equipment to detect conversations. Bul at a substantial Cost. The Telephone that the Bell company puts in costs about $400," Strolsky said. The Telephone Hal the private pay phone operator puts in costs about $1,400. Which one do you think is going to make More Money the independents have not always been successful in their technical adjustments. In California where independents Are installing pay phones at lha rate of 1,000 a Day Pacific Bell reported that ils operators received More than 3,700 complaints in one week in May that such phones were failing to return coins when Calls could not be completed. The independents Laca a Long Uphill Battle to obtain equal looking according to Judith St. Ledger roly. A Washington lawyer who has represented Independent pay Telephone companies in regulatory Battles she said Hal most of the disputes lie within the jurisdiction of state Public utilities commissions not the Federal regulators. Which makes it difficult for Iho independents to focus their poles is you have to look at the individual Sale lands Cove eng pay phones is it a tall under which a provider can make a reasonable profit. Or is u a stale like Massouk whore there s no Way a pay Phona operator can make Money is Ledger roly said Noling dial Missouri phone comp Mes wore authorized to charge pay phone opera Lois very High connection ices As a result As of March Missour had Only 65 privately owned pay phones compared with More than 9.000 in Ca Lornia u�t22,198t the stars and stripes Page 15