通信运营与管理专业英语教程 教学课件 作者 李学军 Unit 8.pptVIP

Unit 8 Telephone Cards Important vocabulary prepaid phone card 预付费电话卡 PIN (personal identification number) 身份号码 land-line 陆线，陆上线路 magnetic stripe 磁条 Important vocabulary ATM ( Automatic Teller Machine) 自动柜员机 pay-phone 公用电话 key card 房卡， 电子开门卡 optical storage 光存储， 光存储器 Important vocabulary microchip 微晶片 core technology 核心技术 stored-value 储值 Telephone cards A telephone card, calling card or phone card for short, is a small card, usually resemblinga credit card, used to pay for telephone services. Telephone cards can employ prepaid credit system or credit card style system of credit. Questions on Paragraph 1-3 1.What is the most common types of telephone cards ? 2. What is the other main type of card ? How does the card charged calls? 3. What are the two core technologies for phonecards are? Types of telephone card Prepaid cards: purchased with a specific balance, from which the cost of calls made is deducted. Pre-paid phone cards are disposable. Pin cars: a card with a special PIN（personal identification number） printed on it that allows one to charge calls to a land-line telephone account. Core technologies for cards Stored-value: the card itself contains the balance available. The balance is read by the public pay-phone machine when it is inserted into the machines card reader. It is similar to an ATM at a bank. Ways in which the value can be encoded on the card. 1. The earliest system used a magnetic stripe as information carrier. Stored-value cards 2.The next technology used optical storage. Optical phone cards get their name from visible marks left on the card, such as holes or lines, so that the card reader scansfor such marks and determines the balance on the card. 3. Chip cards The initial microchipswere easy to hack, typically by scratching off the programming-voltage contact on the card Highly secure technology aided the spread of chip phone cards worldwide. Remote memory cards Remote memory: Uses a toll or toll