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...that promised to change dramatically last week when mammoth AT&T announced that it would offer its regular residential telephone customers--all 80 million of them--five hours of free access to the Internet each month, or unlimited access for $19.95 a month, on its newly announced Worldnet access service. Suddenly, the right flat rate and the right number of phone lines were in the same place, and the entire Internet-service industry seemed on the verge of a brutal shake-out. At week's end AOL's share price dropped 15%, from 53 7/8 to 45 3/4, while...
...requirements of a good treaty and not some arbitrary deadline that will determine the timetable," Reagan said in an address beamed across Europe on the U.S. Information Agency's "Worldnet" satellite service. The speech was taped Monday in the Oval Office...
Wick has made clever use of satellite television. The USIA's new Worldnet linkup can put U.S. officials on the nightly news all over the globe. When the Soviets pulled out of the 1984 Olympics, nearly 60 million viewers in Africa and Europe watched Olympics Czar Peter Ueberroth and Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley rebut Soviet complaints about inadequate security and alleged racism. Last April Worldnet began beaming a global two-hour morning news-and- entertainment show, complete with a perky anchor, called America Today. The USIA is now considering equipping Afghan "freedom fighters" with minicams to film action footage...