Alarmist stories in the public prints on Sunday that the European Telecommunications Standards Institute was about to sound the death knell for Telepoint have proved to be groundless: the standards body overwhelmingly rejected a proposal that work should be halted on the CT-2 Common Air Interface and the European CT-1; it says there will be no conflict in the market between the present standards and the future DECT-1800 system from L M Ericsson Telefon AB; it also upheld the decision from its technical committee not to start work on the DCT standard proposed by Ericsson; there will be sighs of relief at GEC Plessey Telecommunications Ltd, Orbitel Mobile Communications Ltd and Shaye Communications Ltd, all of which are manufacturing Common Air Interface-compliant equipment.
