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AT & T would then market its VideoPhone 2500 to the general public from 1992 to 1995 with prices starting at US $ 1, 500 ( approximately $ in current dollars ) and later dropping to $ 1, 000 ($ today ), marketed by its Global VideoPhone Systems unit.

The VideoPhone 2500 was designed to provide low-frame rate compressed color video on ordinary Plain Old Telephone Service ( POTS ) lines, circumventing the significantly higher cost ADSL telephone service lines.

Again, the company met with very little commercial success, selling only about 30, 000 units, mostly outside the United States.