Alcatel is a telecommunications company which is a major supplier to Telkom.
The other project was the ‘Kiosk’ phone-booth system. Additional factors for consideration were; a keypad (for the operator) built into the Master Controlling Unit and a Slave unit LCD display (for the user) located in a cubicle, up to 12 x cubicles per kiosk.
A detail of the rubber keypad for the satellite-based ‘Kiosk’ phone and the working model of the satellite ‘Kiosk’ phone-booth system, the Master Controlling Unit and the Slave Display.