The bell tolls for long distance
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Long distance is dead. The last of the big-three long-distance carriers, MCI Inc., yesterday agreed to a $6.7 billion takeover by Verizon Communications Inc. The move comes two weeks after AT&amp;T Corp. agreed to sell out for $16 billion to SBC Communications Inc. Meanwhile, Sprint Corp. is taking a hard turn into a chiefly wireless future through a planned $36 ...
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Last week, AT&T, better known as Ma Bell, agreed to be eaten by one of its progeny, the Baby Bell named SBC. The Oedipal irony is more than just another story about mergers and acquisitions. It is an epic saga -- some might say a tragedy -- about Washington and its fickle relations with the world of commerce.
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She may have just been driving home, but she sure took the long   way to get there.
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BusinessWeek Online - In the world of big-time telecom, the Baby Bells have been hogging the spotlight as they bulk up to compete against an onslaught of new technology -- and their arch-rivals, the cable companies. For competitors hovering outside the Bells' territory, that sends a stark message: Team up or get smashed. Sprint Corp.  and Nextel Communications Inc.  chose the former, announcing on Dec. 15 a &#36;35 billion deal to merge into the third-largest wireless powerhouse. With a market capitalization of &#36;70 billion, the new Reston (Va. ...
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By THOMAS B. LANGHORNE, Courier & Press staff w
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A cellular telephone charger can be such a familiar part of the home, car or office landscape that it is easily left behind when a business traveler hits the road.
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Blog: With two hours to go, the line starts getting too long so Apple moves everyone closer together. Unfortunately, a lot of people smell kind of funny.
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By Elizabeth Lazarowitz, Daily News, New York  Feb. 5--With family and friends in such far-flung places as Hong Kong and  Argentina, Carlos Ronisky used to run up hefty phone bills just trying to keep  in touch.   Then he heard about VoIP.
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The odyssey of Jordan Bell and Dominic Turner last week was typical of the travails afflicting thousands of air travelers in this turbulent summer travel season: a two-hour tarmac delay, a missed connection to get home to Washington, an unexpected overnight stay in Chicago, a flight scrubbed by...
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The mail must get through, but sometimes it takes a little time &#151; in this case, 54 years. A letter mailed on Sept. 22, 1950, in Oslo, made it to Halden, less than 55 miles away, this week, the local newspaper Halden Arbeiderbladet reported Thursday.
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Phone service that's available wherever there's a Net connection is approaching 2 million users.
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Some area wireless customers may soon experience clearer service farther away from town, as well as new equipment options, now that a landmark merger has been completed.
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Bell/Agusta AB139s seem to be headed far and wide at the moment. Deliveries of the new medium twin to the Namibian government and, most recently, to philanthropist the Aga Khan (see sidebar) are recent ...
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If you are in Sudan it is a "missed call". In Ethiopia it is a "miskin" or a "pitiful" call. In other parts of Africa it is a case of "flashing", "beeping" or in French-speaking areas "bipage".
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Big city's WLAN okay. Little towns not so lucky
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Blockbuster has to take the long way home.
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Almost any time you turn on the tube, one group or another is pushing a cause. The Baby Bells want updated telecom laws. Abortion rights advocates plead for medical privacy. Air traffic controllers seek respect.