Selected engineers were sent to the UK to work within the Marconi development team stationed at Fleet, Hampshire, England.
Singapore was the first country in the world to launch an interactive information service to the public which included photographic images.
[5] Pages with photographic images were sent to the terminal by full-field teletext transmissions from dedicated data inserters/UHF TV transmitters.
The information storage and delivery system was based upon GPT4190 computers coupled to dial in modem for public to access and via microwave link to a UHF TV transmitter fitted with full-field teletext inserters.
High-level data such as geometric and photographic displays sent exclusively by full-field teletext with interchange control and handshaking via V.22 modem.