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...phone company, no Internet, no cell phones. Prices were high, but there were only a few bills to pay each month. Now there are 2,040 local phone companies in the U.S., 928 long-distance companies and 858 cell-phone service providers as well as 130 purveyors of broadband Internet access. We're besieged by telemarketers pitching incompatible technologies and offering us rate plans that read like the repair manual for the space shuttle. It sometimes seems to take a triple major in economics, network engineering and contract law just to stay intelligently connected to the rest of the world...
Bobby Schaefer, 50, of San Diego is no computer geek--she designs and knits sweaters for a living--but when she ordered broadband Internet access, she thought she had done her homework. She talked to her friends and the employees at a local CompUSA store to figure out which kind of service--cable modem, digital subscriber line or satellite--made the most sense. But when she finally made the call, she was plunged into a netherworld of bureaucracy. Charges appeared on her phone bill even before she had officially ordered DSL, just for having asked about it. The company from...
...Cable and satellite companies resolve to concentrate a little less on winning market share through mergers and acquisitions and a little more on competing for our subscripted eyeballs with vertically integrated broadband services like movies-on-demand and pay-per TV archives. A little price pressure might be nice...
Most offices in the World Trade Center were equipped with the latest computers, storage devices and broadband connections. Yet when volunteer Robert Galinsky showed up to help clear the site on Sept. 12, his crew felt overwhelmed not by electronic debris so much as by paper: "printouts of e-mails, employee review sheets, interoffice memos, training guides." Galinsky, 36, a multimedia artist, recalls that "we dug through tons and tons of it." And there are similar volumes of paper, stored right alongside the latest PCs and servers, in offices around the world...
Levin has been a tireless proponent of cable-TV systems as the gateway for delivering the Internet and entertainment. He has led AOL Time Warner into a battle with Comcast and Cox--both backed by Microsoft--to buy some or all of AT&T Broadband, the nation's largest cable company. But some executives and board members argue that there are ways--over telephone lines or by satellite--to reach those households without burdening AOL Time Warner with billions more in debt. Parsons is leading the AT&T talks and will have to decide what price--in dollars and regulatory...