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...women-owned firms. (After those companies receive credits, the government haul drops to $394 million, the FCC said.) The auction, which had six companies competing per region, was designed to produce winners ready to offer consumers increased competition and lower prices, unlike the two-firm limit in current cellular markets. Next (and last) up: On Dec. 5, 74 companies -- including heavy hitters like AT&T, Sprint, TCI and Comcast -- bid for another 99 licenses covering 51 regions.Post your opinion on theNew Mediabulletin board...
...deadline triggered a frenzy of late-night telephone calls among local phone companies (the so-called Baby Bells), the major long-distance phone companies, the big cable-TV operators and a bunch of cellular-phone start-ups. When the dust settled, the biggest player on the field -- the partnership of AT&T and McCaw Cellular Communications -- was being challenged by two other behemoths: a joint venture formed by Sprint and a trio of cable TV operators; and a foursome of Baby Bells made up of Bell Atlantic, NYNEX, US West and the cellular spin-off of Pacific Telesis. After being...
...team, which included Medical School Professor of Anatomy and Cellular Biology Dr. Judah M. Folkman, found that a fragment of the protein plasminogen prevents the growth of blood vessels around secondary tumors called metastases...
...tomorrow's opening of fierce bidding in the second stage of the largest federal auction of the airwaves ever, one featuring bidding by alliances of some of the world's largest telecommunications companies. Last July, the FCC netted more than $600 million from frantic betting for new pager and cellular phone "bandwidths" and this week's bidding should push the total value of the auction at over $1 billion. More than two dozen companies are expected to compete for 30 regional licenses to offer a web of more powerful wireless services, such as two-way paging, messaging and faxing...
Gingrich's full immersion in the details of GATT made it a little hard for the White House to swallow his sudden complaint last week that the legislation required further study. So did his sudden objection to a provision that would reduce licensing fees for three cellular-telephone companies. White House officials maintained last week that Gingrich knew about the provision all along. Yet he balked because, he said, it favored the Washington Post Co., which owns a controlling interest in one of the cellular operations and was therefore an example of the special breaks contained in the thousand-page...