Word: analogizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...today's PCS networks can't match the analog crowd as a provider of seamless coast-to-coast calling because the new services are still fragmented and operate on three different technical standards. And you have to buy the digital phones, which a company like AT&T sells in the New York City area for $79 to $149, including a small pager-like window that displays messages. Basic analog phones, on the other hand, are frequently offered for little or nothing as incentives to sign...
...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...