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...radios aren't just for police officers and truck drivers. At least that's what Motorola is banking on with its new Iden i1000 ($300; available from Nextel), a compact cell phone that doubles as a two-way radio and pager. The radio function works within a 150-mile range and is best for quick communication with co-workers or family members with the same phone. Pricier cell-phone calls can connect you anywhere...
Other companies are zeroing in on the rich business market. Nextel is wooing corporate customers by packaging radio, paging and telephone services into discount-priced bundles. Controlled by Craig McCaw, who sold his cellular business to AT&T in 1994 for $11.5 billion, Nextel aims to establish itself in regions covering 85% of the U.S. population...
...same number. AT&T will test the first phase in Chicago this year. "Any technology that gives customers a choice is good for us," says Daniel Hesse, who became president of AT&T Wireless two weeks ago after Steven Hooper quit to join his old boss, Craig McCaw, at Nextel. The job hopping is one more sign of growing pains in an industry that has bedeviled its customers with too many confusing choices--even as it has begun to offer real competition for the first time...
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...
Richard Liebhaber, MCI's chief technology strategist, notes that the company is not alone in its support of Nextel. In addition to MCI, Nextel is backed by Motorola, Comcast, Northern Telecom, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone and Matsushita. "We're part of the telephone version of a dream team," says Liebhaber, dismissing Nextel naysayers. After all, once there was another start-up company that began as a radio dispatcher for truckers and also defied the odds: MCI itself...