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...driving force behind such forecasts is a new digital service called PCS (for personal communications system) that was created by the Federal Communications Commission. The agency took a piece of the airwaves in the mid-frequency spectrum that had been used for police calls and other public purposes and turned it over to industry for cell-phone service--at a price. The government collected $20.3 billion in granting PCS licenses for nearly 500 markets from New York City to Liberal, Kansas. Michael Elling, an analyst for Prudential Securities, estimates that PCS systems will create a 15-fold increase in wireless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOBILE WARFARE | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

...PCS means more than the addition of new frequencies to the wireless spectrum. Unlike many older systems, which send a voice in a single stream as analog waves, PCS uses digital signals that break sound into discrete bits--the 1s and 0s that run computers. Digital technology enables PCS to offer such features as E-mail, caller ID and paging as well as compact-disc-quality sound and greater security from wireless eavesdroppers and phone-number thieves. (Digital technology is also becoming available in non-PCS formats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOBILE WARFARE | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

...today's PCS networks can't match the analog crowd as a provider of seamless coast-to-coast calling because the new services are still fragmented and operate on three different technical standards. And you have to buy the digital phones, which a company like AT&T sells in the New York City area for $79 to $149, including a small pager-like window that displays messages. Basic analog phones, on the other hand, are frequently offered for little or nothing as incentives to sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOBILE WARFARE | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

...annual revenues just four years earlier. The industry's next wave of growth is being propelled by falling prices that put the cost of a machine closer to that of a household appliance. Houston-based Compaq introduced its Presario 2100 for $999 in February. Others have low-priced PCs too. Now the industry is bracing for a quantum leap in demand as people who previously couldn't afford a computer rush to buy one on the notion that one day a PC will be as indispensable as a car or TV. Compaq wanted Gateway so it could speedily add capacity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRICE OF FREEDOM | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

Ellison's dealmaking is aimed at forcing a revolution onto the PC industry. Today's software, he argues, is too complicated and loaded with gizmos no one ever uses. Worse, at several thousand dollars a pop, personal computers are anything but personal. Instead, he says, "PCs should be more like pencils," by which he means cheap, user-friendly and above all ubiquitous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LARRY ELLISON: THE PRINCE OF SAN MATEO | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

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