Word: belled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although an experimental cellular system has operated in the Chicago area since 1978, it is chiefly the breakup of the Bell System that is making cellular technology take off. Under the terms of the Jan. 1 divestiture, the seven new regional companies responsible for local phone service won the right to enter the mobile-telephone business. Each is pumping as much as $20 million into its cellular efforts...
Lower prices, though, may be just ahead. To encourage competition, the FCC has also authorized non-Bell companies to provide cellular transmission in 30 large market areas, and about 1,000 firms, including Metromedia and GTE, are competing for licenses in smaller cities. All are expected to fight for customers by lowering prices...
...rush has created a logjam at the FCC and griping among the non-Bell newcomers, who see the old Bell companies as getting a head start in mobile service. Says Albert Grimes, vice president of American TeleServices, a company in the Baltimore-Washington market: "The industry was moving at 100 m.p.h. and ran into an agency that was moving...
What doomed the pneu and the postal service, of course, was the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell's new invention seemed so much faster, and consequently so much better. This was before the busy signal was invented, or statements like "He's in conference right now. May I have him call you back...
...Blue Jays scored three runs in the fourth when Garcia led off with a double and scored on Moseby's bloop triple. Bell followed with his homer to give the Jays a 3-2 lead...