Word: cellular
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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...
...most likely customers are executives and salespeople who have been unable to get mobile phones because of the limited capacity of the old systems. Says Katie Harriss, an executive with Ameritech in Chicago, the first company to offer cellular service: "All the sales we've had so far are from the pent-up demand that already existed." Ameritech has been operating its network only since October and has 6,500 customers. It expects to have twice as many by December...
...final scene, where poor Tom Rakewell, insane at last, finds himself in Bedlam. The wall is covered with graffiti, each one a quotation from Hogarth, and in front of it the chorus of lunatics is housed in a stack of boxes, splayed in false perspective, a feverish metaphor of cellular confinement...
...Cellular phones rely on low-power transmitters in designated cells, or districts, to relay signals from passing automobiles equipped with the mobile phones. Last month Ameritech Mobile Communications introduced in Chicago the first commercial cellular mobile radio service. Bell Atlantic's Mobile Systems expects to launch cellular service early next year in Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia. By 1990 1.5 million cellular phones could be operating...
...least as far as administrative matters go, Dowling's most important responsibility is as associate dean for the Biological Sciences. In this position, Dowling coordinates the activities of Harvard's two Bio departments--Cellular and Development Biology and Orgasismic and Evolutionary Biology--as well as the Biochemistry Department...