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...market share as that happens. Long-distance would be the obvious immediate offset." Already, dozens of firms known as "competitive access providers" deliver local voice-and-data transmission services to businesses, linking them to long-distance lines in competition with the Bells. Some of these newcomers have deep pockets. Teleport Communications Group, which operates in 37 markets, is owned by TCI and three other cable systems. "People are anxious for an alternative to the Bells," asserts Curt Hockemeier, a Teleport senior vice president. "It's going to be a wide-open fight." Declares James Crowe, chairman of MFS Communications, which...
...region. Similarly, Pacific Telesis took an option to buy a cable system in Chicago, although it will need special permission to send cable programming to the system by satellite. Cox Enterprises and Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI), the world's largest cable-TV operator, joined forces last year to buy Teleport, a company that provides a telephone service not covered by the Cable Act: private branch exchanges to business customers...
...Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, working with Western Union and Merrill Lynch, is building a gigantic $84 million Teleport on New York City's Staten Island. Its 17 earth stations will be beamed at all domestic and some international satellites and will feed communications into the World Trade Center, skirting the phone company in New York City. Citicorp, the largest U.S. bank, is installing its own $100 million system in Wall Street's financial district, which will take most of its communications out of the phone system. Even Salt Lake City's Mormon Church...
Brother Blue furnishes amazing stories, rhymed didactic, but no music tonight starting at 7:30 pm at the nonprofit, collective Common Grounds Coffee House. Teleport or take the Red Line to Central Square, find the 100 Flowers Book Store at 15 Pearl St., walk inside, and you're there. Music on Fridays and Sundays only; this week it's Dean McGraw with folk and blues from 8:30 to 11:00 pm on Friday, and "open music"--something like open book, I understand, but no molecular models or calculators allowed--on Sunday from 3:00 pm to closing. Call...
...that Doc is just a jock, though. He is also the world's greatest surgeon, the greatest chemist, the greatest inventor. He had Polaroid, television and the shotgun mike at least a decade before the public did, and if you don't watch out, he'll "teleport" you atom by atom to his mysterious laboratory near the North Pole. Like James Bond, Doc is gadget-gaga. Dozens of tiny martial devices-gas bombs, sedative darts, ultraviolet flashlights-are concealed in his clothing. His cars are rolling fire bases that can "go like Barney Oldfield" and crash like...