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FAST PHONES Last week Verizon became the first U.S. company to deploy the fancy, fast new form of wireless Internet access known to techies as "3G," for "third generation." The $30-a-month service (Verizon calls it the Express Network) will send data to PCs with special wireless cards, and even to some cell phones, more than twice as fast as an ordinary 56K modem...
SHEIRER, at the police academy: By 4 p.m. we are up and operating. I make the library into a small emergency- operations center and get Verizon to install additional hard lines. All the agencies start coming there--30 or 35 agencies. Everybody you need to make any decision is there...
...usually easier to install wireless connections than to lay cables, the number of new cell-phone customers has been soaring for years. "They skipped a whole stage of evolution," says Michael Erbschloe of Computer Economics, a technology-research company in Carlsbad, Calif. That's good news for companies like Verizon, which is part-owned by Vodafone, the world's most popular wireless provider and a dominant player in Africa, where cell-phone subscriptions more than doubled...
While Harvard has advanced its own afterschool goals—the overall partnership, which includes the city of Boston, United Way of Massachusetts Bay, Liberty Mutual, Verizon and FleetBoston Financial—has been moving slowly...
...outbid American phone giant Bell Atlantic for control of AirTouch Communications, then turned around and hooked up with Bell Atlantic to combine both companies' wireless networks in the U.S. under the Verizon umbrella...