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Gallium arsenide communication equipment is not yet on the market, but the diodes are easy to manufacture and should not be expensive. The rest of the transmitting and receiving apparatus is equally simple and cheap. But the potentialities are almost unlimited. If the world is ever afflicted with a choice between thousands of different TV programs, a few diodes with their feeble beams of infrared light might carry them all at once.