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...years that monopoly has slipped away. And in the eyes of traditional telecom bosses, the antidote is conglomeration, a kind of circle-the-wagons strategy they hope can hold off competition's inevitable charge. The approach has roots in an earlier boom time. In the 1920s the nation's railroad firms consolidated in a vain attempt to stave off competition from cars. The phone companies--which think a large customer base will make it cheaper to develop and sell new services--believe this time will be different...
Picture this scene from a recent hit movie. It's night. A car idles at a railroad crossing, waiting for the train. Inside the car are a man and a woman. She's pregnant. She asks the man to feel her stomach--her baby is kicking. It's the kind of dewy moment that wouldn't be out of place in a financial-services commercial, or maybe one for tires...
...spring of 1995, Yang and Filo put their doctoral theses on hold and moved into their first office, in nearby Mountain View, in the heart of Silicon Valley, near some railroad tracks. It was a relatively big suite, around 1,700 sq. ft., which they needed for the computer servers that would gather and store the data, and the people who would feed and care for them. But by the end of the year they needed more space and moved into a 12,000-sq.-ft. site in Sunnyvale, where they went public. "We thought, 'This is great...
...annual payroll at Mueller is $14 million, and the money is earned. Tour this plant, and you get a reminder of what hard labor is. There is no easy way to forge a 500-lb. fire hydrant out of molten railroad tracks. It's hot, loud, dirty, physical work. In an eight-hour shift that begins at 7, you get two 10-minute breaks and a 15-minute lunch...
...roaming to areas not served by Sprint's digital net--like during my hour commute between Long Island and Manhattan--the phone is supposed to switch automatically to analog service. It didn't. Sprint's help line later cured the glitch. Now I can use the phone on the railroad--to call the trainshouter across the aisle and tell him to pipe down...