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...last week that LDDS Communications, a Mississippi-based long-distance company, had agreed to pay $2.5 billion for the WilTel long-distance unit of the Williams Cos. Then came word that a federal judge had cleared the way for AT&T to complete its $12.6 billion acquisition of McCaw Cellular, the nation's largest cellular-phone company...
Malone still sounds like a man looking for a telephone partner. In an interview this summer in Wired magazine, he hinted that he would love to offer cellular or long-distance phone service to his cable-TV customers. "If I can do a deal with an MCI, or AT&T or Sprint," the magazine quoted Malone as saying, "then I have stronger brands to play with than the ((Bells...
Police agencies are also taking steps to thwart the pilfering of cellular numbers. Since 1991 more than 5,000 federal and local officers have completed industry-sponsored training that focuses on detection and prosecution. That has paid off across the country, especially in the Los Angeles area, where authorities are now arresting nearly 40 phone defrauders a month -- up from just one offender a month two years ago. Among them: 29-year-old Rodney Phillips, who ran up $2 million worth of fraudulent calls from a home he had turned into a minifactory for snatching numbers. Police found more than...
...tries hard to see that their subscribers don't. Most companies monitor any unusual jumps in a customer's calls and can immediately inquire whether the subscriber has made them. Harder to spot is illegal activity in large corporate accounts or small thefts that take place over time. Thus cellular companies warn consumers to watch their bills closely and report any suspicious charges. The last thing this booming industry wants is to have pirates plunder their customers and send them back to wired phones...
Companies strive to disconnect thieves who rip off cellular calls...