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...plan calls for Ma Bell to be divided into four distinct companies: AT&T Business Services, AT&T Consumer Services, AT&T Broadband and AT&T Wireless. That's a lot of slicing and dicing, but it gets even more complicated. Some of the new companies will start off as "tracking stocks," meaning they're independent in name only. AT&T Business will become the parent of AT&T Consumer. And the whole thing will take two years to happen...
...core businesses have been in an accelerating decline. In 1984 a federal antitrust ruling forced AT&T to spin off its lucrative local phone operations, now the Baby Bells. More recently, stiff competition from WorldCom, Sprint, the Baby Bells and wireless has been driving the profit out of the long-distance business--which still accounts for as much as 65% of AT&T's more than $62 billion in revenue. Ma Bell, which had been charging 15[cents] a minute for calls, suddenly found itself competing with rates as low as 4[cents] a minute. In this year's third...
...three years at the helm, Armstrong, 62, has tried to shift AT&T into new and more lucrative areas. He moved aggressively into cable, plunking down $115 billion to build the nation's biggest cable network. Armstrong has also pushed into fast-growing areas like wireless and has tried to turn AT&T's WorldNet into a rival of AOL's. The ultimate vision was that Ma Bell would clean up by cross-selling its 80 million customers a bundle of telephone, cable and Internet services...
...Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) estimates that there are more than 100 million wireless subscribers in the United...
What makes Audrey different is that it offers enough stylish touches to make what few functions it delivers feel like luxury. Not only can you type e-mail on its petite, wireless keyboard, but you can also send a voice message or scribble a note directly on its 8-in., touch-sensitive screen using the glowing Plexiglas stylus. A blinking green light alerts you to new e-mail even when Audrey is turned off. To get the news, you simply turn a knob in front to flip through any of nine "channels" featuring customized Web content from sites such...