BRS enters the TV age
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DATAFREIGHT, British Road Services' computerised load matchin service, has entered its second phase this week with the launchin of Prestel Datafreight, a partnership with the British Telecom ir formation service.
The service, which uses television monitors, is a much simpler system to operate, and will give users access to the whole range of information services already available from Prestel,
By early next year, users will also have access to tailor-made information services such as summaries of transport legislation, statistics, weather reports geared to the needs of the industry, and details of which port facilities are open.
Unlike the original Datafreig service, which was geared pi manly to the needs of BRS, if new system offers all users equal opportunity of gaining th traffic they require.
The two companies belies that most users' needs can t provided for by the annual sul scription of around £40 a wee This gives about 75 minute access time to the system (and rented Prestel tv set), althou the information remains o display for as long as the usi requires. The access time refe only to the time needed to gai access to the computer, wil each transaction requiring only fraction of a second of acce; time.
Users may make more than minutes' use of the system witl out prior notice, and are bilk for the additional amount in fashion similar to that for norm phone bills.
The companies anticipate th, Prestel Datafreight will gro. much faster than BRS Dat freight did in its first two year partly because of the simplici. and greater potential of the ne. system, and partly because Pre tel sales staff will be making greater effort to sell the system