AT&T Co is to offer a new service in the US that provides multilingual operators to translate telephone conversations between customers that speak different languages: the Language Line service is already being offered by subscription to police, emergency services, public utilities, school systems and governent and is to be offered to all telephone customers soon; police and other services using it will request a multilingual operator to come on the line and translate the three-party conversation, in any one of 143 languages 24 hours a day, seven days a week; it’s $1,000 to $1,500 to sign up for the service plus $25 to $50 a month, $1.94 to $2.50 a minute for each call.
