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...each other. Both beeper and mobile-phone messages are carried on radio frequencies. The companies that operate on those frequencies, known as common carriers, often transmit both kinds of signals. Growing familiarity with cheaper beepers is expected to enhance the demand for mobile phones. Another radio-transmitted telephone service, cordless phones, which only have a range of up to 700 ft., got a boost from the Government last week when the FCC proposed to double the number of frequencies available...
...familiar model with pushbuttons in the handle, and similar versions by other manufacturers. At some American Bell stores, buyers are picking up phones with flair, like the suave, curved Genie ($99) and the French-inspired Celebrity ($159). The fastest-growing sales are being run up by the cordless phone ($130 to $299), which can be carried around the house or outdoors and has a range of up to 700 feet. The portability of the cordless phone occasionally causes problems. "I love the convenience," says Beth Jackson of Charlotte, N.C., "but next time I'm getting a different color. Mine...
...answered; phones that can edit out and block pre-selected callers from reaching a person's number at all; phones that can even double as personal desktop computers. Also in the works is a broad range of video phones for offices and, most exotic of all, portable and cordless little devices that can provide instant direct-dial access to telephones around the world. Beyond telecommunications, divestiture is expected to take AT&T into such red-hot markets as office automation, electronic information and bankat-home services, and even the mainframe computer business, a field now dominated...
...lighting and makeup. No detail is overlooked. They scramble into the rafters to scrub the grime off the spotlights, hustle around a club blowing out the candles because "they detract attention from the stage." They wire the singer's microphone through an echo-chamber box, or provide a cordless shortwave mike that transmits to an FM receiver hooked up with the sound system...
With its pistol grip and nubby barrel, the instrument looks like the handy ray gun with which Buck Rogers and Wilma used to zap Killer Kane. It is actually a space-age wrench. Cordless and battery-powered, it was designed by Martin Marietta as a zero-reaction power tool to be used by astronauts for turning nuts and bolts in the weightless conditions of space...