Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plenty of worries. "It's a clumsy bureaucracy," Adlerstein admits good-naturedly. Most disputes have been small. Burgee, architect of the new Liberty Island plaza, had a recent week long argument with the Park Service over the proper color (his white vs. its gray) of outdoor chairs. After 15 phone calls he surrendered...
...sugar broker from the Virgin Islands named Sosthenes Behn founded International Telephone & Telegraph, hoping to link callers around the world much as AT&T had connected phone users in the U.S. For decades thereafter, Behn's successors at ITT remained true to his vision. Even when ITT's acquisitive chairman Harold Geneen began buying dozens of companies in such fields as aerospace, bakery goods and cosmetics in the 1960s and 1970s, he kept ITT firmly planted in global telecommunications...
...Italy. Araskog thought that if he could adapt System 12 to U.S. standards, he could sell it to the regional Bell companies, which were formed after the AT&T breakup in 1984. But ITT was unable to write software that would mesh System 12 with most existing U.S. phone networks. AT&T and Northern Telecom both made popular systems, and Araskog lost $125 million before he abandoned the project in February...
Summer school officials did not return phone calls yesterday...
Nevertheless, the wiring of America proceeds apace. Some local phone companies are testing systems that will divide standard voice telephone lines into three digital channels, allowing telephone customers to plug terminals directly into their wall sockets, without benefit of modem, and to program their phones like computers. Networking firms, such as 3Com, Sytek, Ungermann- Bass and Network Systems Corp., are stringing up mile after mile of high- speed coaxial and optical fiber cables and offering communications rates in excess of 275 million bits of information a second...