  $LIFE WITH A BI-BOP
]            by SINK/HMD



 Wearing high heeled schoes and hold-
ing an Hermes bag, the geek is trying
to attract males at the corner of the
street .
             OOPS SORRY !

 Wearing high heeled schoes and hold-
ing an Hermes bag, she's holding a
pocket phone .
One year ago the apparatus, as the bag
was worth 15,000FF (3,000$ US) without
taxes .
Today you can offer yourselves the
same look'n feel for only 1,890FF
(378$) .
(Without the Hermes bag of course !!!)




 Whereas in France it's only the
beginning of the ambulant phone's era
in Tokyo, Milan or New-York,
executives already phone while jogging
along the streets, wearing a pocket-
fax and a "pager" .
(In french : "Signal d'appels)

 France Telecom's Bi-Bop is coming up
in Paris in May . That's not a new
Hip-Hop dance but a 200 grammes wire-
less pocket phone already experimented
in Strasbourg (France) since 6 months.
3,000 telephone relays are set up
throughout Paris and 500,000 users are
expected within 2 years .
 



User's guide :
 You pull out the receiver, as big as
2 cigarette packs, out of your pocket,
your bag or your raincoat and you seek
a wave length correctly served by a
three-coloured marked relay (blue,
white, green) .
 The waves are strong enough to allow
everyone to communicate in peace, even
if there is 200 guys talking with a
Bi-Bop .

 The package is extremely attractive
because it's light and not expensive .
Even the communication won't exceed
the price to pay in a public phone .
(0.83FF higher than an ordinary
minute in France)

 From here to 1995, all towns bigger
than 50,000 inhabitants are supposed
to be linked with this system, as the
roads between these towns .

