Taoiseach Albert Reynolds makes a call on Telecom Eireann's new video telephone.
Telecom Éireann is providing telecommunications for the participants and press corps at the Irish Management Inistitue (IMI) conference at the Great Southern Hotel in Killarney, County Kerry.
Telecom Éireann uses the conference as an opportunity to launch a new service the video telephone which enables the caller to see the person on the other end of the line.
The first video telephone call on the new system is made by Taoiseach Albert Reynolds who is attending the conference. His image is beamed to Dublin and he chats to Telecom Éireann employee Martina Harrison who is visible to him on a monitor.
The Taoiseach jokes to those watching,
Don't mind the digital telephones, just send me one of the old ones that works, that I can wind.
Telecom Éireann expects the video telephone to be widely available in Ireland by the end of 1993.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 27 April 1992.
