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Universality,
Bidirectionality, Interactivity - (IBU) - UBI consisted of National Bank of
Canada, HydroQuebec, Loto-Quebec, Le
Groupe Videotron, The Hearst Corp. and Canada Post Corp. In 1996 UBI
announced a plan to distribute to 30,000 Quebec-area households,
terminals that would allow access to interactive services from 170
companies. These services included home banking and financial services,
home shopping, e-mail, information services and government services.
Also offered were interactive cable services from Le Groupe Videotron,
including video games and pay-per-view selections. The terminals were
designed by Videoway Communications and GTE mainStreet.
History of Interactive
Television
History of Closed
Captioning
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