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...They're losing tons of people to new IPOs," computer science concentrator Octavian S. Timaru '03 says of Alcatel, an established communications firm where he worked last summer. "People inside the company go and start new companies and hire people away form Alcatel...
...good news for many students is that they may not have to choose between the two extremes. Not all startups are huge risks--as articles in Alcatel's company newspaper darkly prophesize--and not all major corporations are stifling or boring...
...smart-phone era has already dawned. In Europe later this year, Nokia will begin selling its 9110 Communicator, a second-generation device about the size of a large mobile phone with a flip-top computer screen, capable of composing faxes, sending and reading e-mail and accessing the Internet. Alcatel, the French phone giant, is already marketing a phone called the One Touch Com, which has taken all the functions of a palm-size organizer, such as address book and scheduler, and installed them in a mobile handset small enough to slip in a shirt pocket...
Once the preserve of business users, mobile phones have become an everyday consumer appliance--even a fashion accessory. Alcatel claims to have taken 10% of the world phone market with a cheap handset available in rainbow colors that appeal to women. The marriage of prepaid calling cards and cheap mobile phones has made markets in Italy, Ireland and Portugal grow nearly 38% a year because there is no subscription fee or phone bill at the end of the month. In Israel some 200,000 units of a phone known as the Mango, which can call only one number, have been...
Trying to shoulder Teledesic aside is Skybridge, an Alcatel venture with allies including Sharp, Mitsubishi Electric and Toshiba. This summer, Skybridge upped its number of proposed satellites from 64 to 80 and plans to deliver zippy Net connections to the world's more populated areas by 2001. Then there's Angel Technologies, a privately held firm that envisions bouncing signals off a squadron of high-altitude planes circling above metropolitan areas. (Finding pilots may be a problem.) Angel execs say they'll be able to provide commercial Net access by 2000. Another scheme, from Sky Station, would employ blimps...