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When Whit D. Pidot '96 makes a long distance telephone call, he uses his cellular telephone because he says the long distance rates charged by the Harvard Student Telephone Office (HSTO) are so inflated...
...Friday night in the heart of old Shanghai, the crowd at J.J.'s is working up a postsocialist sweat. Men in suits and ties gyrate with fashionably dressed young women; at small tables newly affluent entrepreneurs sip drinks between calls on cellular phones. The young people at J.J.'s revel in something unprecedented for China: personal and professional liberation. Those with the will and skill to take advantage of economic reform are freer than ever to seek their fortune, their mate and their own identity...
...radio frequencies acquired from Motorola, Nextel will have the potential to serve 180 million customers in 21 states, including 45 of the 50 largest cities. That would give the Rutherford, New Jersey, company access to nearly three times the number of customers now covered by McCaw Cellular , Communications, the nation's biggest cellular operator, which is being acquired by AT&T for $12.6 billion. Even though it will cost at least $2.5 billion to rebuild the SMR system into a cellular network, Nextel, which is backed by Comcast Corp. and Japan's Matsushita & Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, intends to have...
That could pose a serious threat to cellular hegemony. Although both systems are based on the same basic technology, SMR systems are digital and cover almost 25 times as much area as the average cellular network. SMR handsets won't work on cellular systems and tend to be bulkier than cellular phones, though they provide more features, like a digital pager service. And while cellular growth has tripled to some 13 million subscribers since 1990, the technology has been losing ground. It is running out of channel capacity so fast, in fact, that 40% of cellular calls in high-density...
...addition of another contender to an already crowded field of telephone systems will surely multiply the confusion. By the year 2000, consumers will be able to choose from at least half a dozen vendors of a dizzying array of wireless-communications services, including pagers, voice mail, answering machines and cellular phones. Phone and cable-television operators, such as Bell South, MCI and Cox Enterprises, are developing so-called personal- communications networks, or PCNs, a highly advanced portable-phone system that is expected to cover a wider area, connect to a greater variety of services and be cheaper to operate than...