Aalice.347 net.columbia utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!mhtsa!alice!sjb Wed Jan 6 21:34:59 1982 SBS and BTI Satellite Business Systems, a partnership of COMSAT General Corp., Aetna Life and Casualty, and IBM, has announced the agreement with the British Telecom International that will allow SBS to enter the international communications scene. The agreement, subject to approval by the FCC, with BTI will let customers of both expand their high-speed communication networks to ``both sides of the Atlantic.'' If the application is approved by the middle of 1982, SBS hopes to start the new service by the forth quarter of that year. It calls for the use of INTELSAT satellites for the trans-oceanic part of a transmission, with SBS and BTI taking care of the distribution in their parts of the world. Both would split the profits. The service will be primarily involved with high-speed data, facsimile, electronic mail (!), and video teleconferenceing links. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.