Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Overseas radio deserves a better hearing. When Wired Magazine stalks the edge of change, and wired undergraduates eagerly anticipate the wireless era heralded by small-dish satellite equipment that downloads digitized video in real time, listening to Die Deutsche Welle seems anachronistic...
...wireless voice message endures as an alternative to the gross and growing limitations of United States newspapers and broadcast journalism aimed at lower-class audiences, and to the continuing narrowness of the World Wide Web. In a post-1960s university, overseas radio offers a portal opening on planetary discussion, albeit a portal open far wider to undergraduates learned in languages other than English...
...likely to touch off fierce new competition among Ma Bell and her children, the Baby Bells. The Baby Bells could invade AT&T's long-distance business; AT&T can counterattack by muscling into the Baby Bells' local markets and also by offering cellular services and, later, portable wireless phones. Analysts think both Ma and kids will have to cut prices deeply, forcing cost cuts achievable only by big layoffs...
Halfway down a corridor, Becky suddenly heard "the voice," an irritating robotic message transmitted from the suitcase to a wireless, button-sized beige receiver in her ear. "Gamma alarm four," the voice droned. That was a strong radiation signal. She glanced left at the room number on the next door and subtracted three from it. The detector's microcomputer takes several seconds to analyze the radiation and calculate its strength, so the room three doors behind her must have been the one actually giving off gamma rays...
...technology is enabling Ma Bell to muscle back into the local markets turned over to the Baby Bells by the 1984 court-ordered divestiture. It can do this now by offering cellular-phone service and later by setting up networks of PCS (personal-communication services) phones. These are new wireless, portable phones. AT&T might also link up with cable-TV companies to route phone calls over TV cables...