Word: analogized
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...well as a host of other digital services. Broadcasters argued that without getting the channels for free, they could never afford to develop HDTV. And, they emphasized, it was only a loan: by 2006, the rollout of digital TV would be complete, and they would give back their old analog channel space. Fair enough, perhaps, if seeing Dan Rather's pores clearly is worth $70 billion to the nation...
...century's days are dwindling, and the only question is how to count them. (The question for entrepreneurs is how to make money from counting them.) The fin-de-siecle countdown is already ticking away, and cropping up around the world are timepieces great and small, digital and analog, useful and utterly useless. Warning: Some timepieces do not work after the first stroke...
...promising--or threatening--is PCS that behemoths from AT&T to the Baby Bells are furiously overlaying their analog systems with digital networks to compete with upstart carriers. That creates more confusion as companies like AT&T, the largest wireless outfit in the country with some 7 million subscribers, offer both digital and analog service along with the corresponding handsets...
...deciding what you want a wireless phone for and how often you will use it. For people who are likely to spend fewer than 100 minutes in over-the-air yakking, a basic plan with few bells and whistles should be adequate. And the choice between digital and analog? "For most people, analog works fine," says Ken Woo, a communications manager for AT&T. "It's pure telephone." But for business customers, who account for roughly half of all wireless usage, PCS services such as E-mail may look particularly appealing...
...winners of the wire-less race, most handicappers put their money on major carriers such as AT&T, Sprint and MCI, which are creating "national footprints" with digital and analog systems. They also have the money to survive a down-and-dirty price...