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...said.) The auction, which had six companies competing per region, was designed to produce winners ready to offer consumers increased competition and lower prices, unlike the two-firm limit in current cellular markets. Next (and last) up: On Dec. 5, 74 companies -- including heavy hitters like AT&T, Sprint, TCI and Comcast -- bid for another 99 licenses covering 51 regions.Post your opinion on theNew Mediabulletin board...
...major long-distance phone companies, the big cable-TV operators and a bunch of cellular-phone start-ups. When the dust settled, the biggest player on the field -- the partnership of AT&T and McCaw Cellular Communications -- was being challenged by two other behemoths: a joint venture formed by Sprint and a trio of cable TV operators; and a foursome of Baby Bells made up of Bell Atlantic, NYNEX, US West and the cellular spin-off of Pacific Telesis. After being wooed and spurned by a variety of players, MCI, the second largest long-distance carrier, decided...
...last four weeks, I've gotten applications for seven Visa cards (four of them Gold Cards), five Mastercards, two American Express Cards (one Gold, one regular), a Discover Card, a Sprint Foncard and an offer for a $7,500 loan. This week there was even a Visa Gold application for my mother...
Simpler still might have been some of the chances that eluded sophomore Will Kohler. Kohler spent much of the early stages of the second half in a perpetual sprint toward the Cornell goal, three times dribbling through the Big Red defense and around O'Sullivan only to fail...
...director of network services for Internex, a Bay area network provider. "I've had a lot of complaints by my customers." At some intervals, as much as 40 percent of the Internet was inaccessible by people from the Northwest, White says. When White complained to his Internet service provider, Sprint, he was told that the company was fixing a bug in its routing software. Sprint could not be reached for comment...