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...joint ventures with companies ranging from General Electric to Snapple, is now suffering the indignity of having a $2 million donation to Harvard criticized by Cambridge's city council, which has called the money tainted and is urging the school to pass it on to relief efforts. A British cellular firm suspended its partnership with the group...
...should be taken against those so identified? The Administration insists the attacks were the work of bin Laden's network. "The evidence we have gathered," said Bush before Congress, "all points to a collection of loosely affiliated terrorist organizations known as al-Qaeda." But when dealing with a cellular organization, proving hard evidentiary links between different operatives is like trying to build a garden wall out of wet tissue. Bin Laden has denied any involvement, and the Taliban says the restrictions it has placed on his movements and communications make it impossible for him to have masterminded the attacks. Hamid...
Although Voicestream Wireless, the Square’s newest cellular provider, won’t open its Mass. Ave. location for another week, its display of phones already has customers salivating. As assistant manager Joy Tommaro sits on the store’s window seat leafing through papers, curious pedestrians peer through the glass attempting to get a glimpse of the colorful posters and displays inside. One man even breezes in through the open door to examine the rate plans...
Voicestream is the most recent in string of cellular providers who have set up shop in the Square. Within a few blocks of the store are Cingular Wireless, located at 22 Eliot Street, and Sprint PCS, which is at the corner of Church and Brattle Streets. Both stores have had little trouble finding customers, especially the Sprint branch, which has proved to be a goldmine for the company. Mark Duncan, Director of Marketing for New England, couldn’t be more pleased. “We are very happy,” he says...
Voicestream begs to differ. Since Deutsch Telecom took over the company last April, Voicestream has become the first and only American cellular provider who can offer its customers the freedom to use their phones anywhere on the Earth. Tommaro plans to capitalize on their unique position. As far as Voicestream’s global capabilities, Leavitt discounts it, saying, “You’re going to find a very small percentage of customers coming in to these stores wanting to do something on an international level...