A light conducting body has a generally conical through bore defined therein. The internal completion string comprises a packer and a shifting tool. If voice activity is not detected, then short message service data is transmitted on the channel. Additionally, a method whereby the formation of certain transition metal salts as salt or oxide matrices is demonstrated at low temperatures utilizing mild reducing agents. The open-ended conductors are configured to capacitively couple select mating conductors thereby providing a compensation region that is electrically parallel to the interconnection path.