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SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Coming to Australia: New pay phones with color touch screens and high-speed Internet connections for sending text, photo and video messages.
Australia's telecommunications giant Telstra, facing increased competition from mobile phones, is outfitting 10 interactive public telephones, at nearly $8,000 each, for a 10-week trial in Sydney's central business district.
E-mail and other Internet access will cost about $1.60 for 20 minutes, text messages are 23 cents each and video messages cost $1.20. Local calls are the same as those at conventional pay phones, 32 cents.
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