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...April of aircraft maker Grumman, which had also been sought by Martin Marietta. Retailing? Federated paid $4.1 billion for R.H. Macy last month in a merger that created America's largest department-store company. Wireless phones? U.S. West and AirTouch Communications agreed two weeks ago to pool their cellular operations into a business with total sales of $13.5 billion and nearly 2 million subscribers...
TELECOMMUNICATIONS. Even as telephone and cable-TV companies join forces to wire up America, cellular firms are racing to create networks in the air. Last week Nextel Communications, a New Jersey wireless company, gained just such a coast-to-coast system when it acquired the cellular operations of Dial Page of South Carolina plus the mobile-radio business of Motorola in deals valued at $2.7 billion. The combinations will pit Nextel, a firm with 200,000 customers, against AT&T, which agreed to pay $12.6 billion for McCaw Cellular last year. Also in the fray are Nynex and Bell Atlantic...
...remarkable thing about the customers who filed in and out of Allman's Fashion Discount, a small Miami apparel shop, was that they never bought any clothes. Instead, say the police, they flocked to 17 cellular phones at the back of the store to call family and friends in Central and South America for just 50 cents a minute -- less than half the nighttime rate for standard phones. Even at that low price the shop's owners, who had rigged their phones to bill the calls to other people's numbers, managed to rake...
Paydays like that have helped turn cellular-phone fraud into a high-tech crime wave that costs the cellular industry about $300 million a year. Such breaches of security could threaten the growth of a booming $11 billion market that has 17 million U.S. customers and is gaining new ones at the rate...
That's why both AirTouch Communications and Nynex Corp. last fall began testing a system to thwart telephone thieves that was developed by aerospace conglomerate TRW. The pirates typically use radio scanners to record the serial number and subscriber identity number that each cellular phone transmits at the start of a call. Then they program the numbers into their own phones, leaving the victim to get the bills. But TRW engineers have come up with a proprietary method for analyzing and storing a third signature of cellular phones -- their unique radio-frequency signal, which cannot be cloned...