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The market's leading Hungarian Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) operator—Westel—has recently introduced a Hungarian e-mail reading system as a regular service. It was implemented on the basis of an experimental system developed at the Department of Telecommunications and Telematics of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (DTT BUTE). In this article, the considerations involved in the design and implementation decisions of both the experimental and the industrial systems will be described. Results of the first 10 weeks of regular use of the industrial system will also be given.
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Németh, G., Zainkó, C., Fekete, L. et al. The Design, Implementation, and Operation of a Hungarian E-Mail Reader. International Journal of Speech Technology 3, 217–236 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026567216832
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