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...dust settled, the biggest player on the field -- the partnership of AT&T and McCaw Cellular Communications -- was being challenged by two other behemoths: a joint venture formed by Sprint and a trio of cable TV operators; and a foursome of Baby Bells made up of Bell Atlantic, NYNEX, US West and the cellular spin-off of Pacific Telesis. After being wooed and spurned by a variety of players, MCI, the second largest long-distance carrier, decided to go it alone...
Where do baby bells go before setting out on the information superhighway? If they're Nynex, Bell Atlantic Corp. and Pacific Telesis, they fuel up in Hollywood. The three phone giants announced today that they were starting a production venture with premier agent Michael Ovitz's company, Creative Artists Agency. The goal: produce TV shows and interactive entertainment, which they can pump over their lines. It's all part of therace against cableto capitalize on the emerging information-in-a-settop-box age. Phone companies are trying to makeup for cable's huge programming advantage. "That's why they need...
...today it would team with three leading cable TV operators -- TCI, Comcast, and Cox -- to compete with Baby Bells and establish a national wireless communication network. Dealmaking in the wireless business has accelerated in the past month. Also in just ahead of the FCC's Friday deadline: Bell Atlantic-Nynex and U S West-AirTouch...
...doing the work of three people," says Joseph Kelterborn, 44, who works for the NYNEX telephone company in New York City. His department, which installs and maintains fiber-optic networks, has been reduced from 27 people to 20 in recent years, in part by combining what were once three separate positions -- switchman, powerman and tester -- into his job of carrier switchman. As a result, says Kelterborn, he often works up to four extra hours a day and one weekend in three. "By the time I get home," he complains, "all I have time for is a shower, dinner...
...weight of the Yard's telephone blackout. Many lines in Canaday and Pennypacker did not operate at all for the first week of the move in. Scores of first-years couldn't even beg their neighbors for telephone time; they had to stroll out to the little NYNEX kiosk by Holworthy to have the privilege of phone service...