Word: sprinted
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...other hand, the three leading commercial long distance service providers, AT&T, Sprint and MCI WorldCom, all advertise dime-per-minute rates for residential customers. AT&T offers a nine-cent per minute plan for customers who will receive their bills online and MCI WorldCom recently launched a plan offering domestic calls for a nickel-a-minute on Sundays...
Long-distance fees from students in residence are big business for the carriers: the three largest collect hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue each year from them. But AT&T is making moves to corner the market by beating its competitors rates, making an offer that neither Sprint nor MCI WorldCom would match...
...real sprint for technological superiority could take place when operators begin switching over to a third generation of mobile phones around the year 2003. Once again, the Europeans and Japanese have agreed on a technical standard called Wideband Code Division Multiple Access as the successor to GSM, but differences with American manufacturer Qualcomm mean that the U.S. will probably adopt a different standard from Europe's and Asia...
Iridium is now a consortium whose major shareholders include Motorola (which kept a 20% stake), Lockheed Martin and Sprint, plus Germany's Veba AG and Russia's Krunichev State Research Production Space Center. The joint venture was supposed to go live on Sept. 23, but then software glitches led officials to disclose that they will delay until Nov. 1 what amounts to the final roll of the dice in its $5 billion gamble to revolutionize telecommunications--or become the best-publicized flop in history. The announcement nudged its stock price on the NASDAQ exchange down...
After the coin-toss--the only thing Harvard wonSaturday--captain Brendan Bibro came toward thesideline. The trademark of last year's team wasthat everyone would sprint onto the field,screaming and pounding Bibro, even when he was oncrutches. This year, it was a casual saunter, aroutine huddle, and an uninspired cheer...