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Just as Microsoft and Intel achieved exponential growth by riding the revolution that put a computer on millions of desktops, Cisco hopes to dominate the business of connecting those PCs. Cisco's routers and switches, which sort packets of information as they fly through the ether, are the guts of the Net. If you send E-mail from Tokyo to Buenos Aires, odds are it will pass a Cisco router. With close to 70% market share, Cisco owns the horses of the fastest-growing Pony Express in history...
While the library physically houses three Macintoshes and three PCs, they are not administratively part of the library, which currently only has one-and-a-half publicly accessible PCs...
...While PCS is still an infant, with barely a 1% share of the wireless market, it sets the pace in pricing. In Washington, where PCS newcomer American Personal Communications took on the entrenched CellularOne and BellAtlantic Nynex last year, the average charge for wireless service has dropped from 45[cents] a minute to just 30[cents]. Contemplating the establishment of PCS systems across the country, Peter Nighswander of the Strategis Group, based in Washington, estimates that the number of subscribers will grow from about 350,000 today to 47 million...
...promising--or threatening--is PCS that behemoths from AT&T to the Baby Bells are furiously overlaying their analog systems with digital networks to compete with upstart carriers. That creates more confusion as companies like AT&T, the largest wireless outfit in the country with some 7 million subscribers, offer both digital and analog service along with the corresponding handsets...
...basic plan with few bells and whistles should be adequate. And the choice between digital and analog? "For most people, analog works fine," says Ken Woo, a communications manager for AT&T. "It's pure telephone." But for business customers, who account for roughly half of all wireless usage, PCS services such as E-mail may look particularly appealing...