Word: telegraph
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Richard Liebhaber, MCI's chief technology strategist, notes that the company is not alone in its support of Nextel. In addition to MCI, Nextel is backed by Motorola, Comcast, Northern Telecom, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone and Matsushita. "We're part of the telephone version of a dream team," says Liebhaber, dismissing Nextel naysayers. After all, once there was another start-up company that began as a radio dispatcher for truckers and also defied the odds: MCI itself...
...cellular-phone problem illustrates how even the most competitive American products -- Motorola claims 40% of the global cellular market -- can be tripped up in Japan. In 1987, when it privatized the national phone company, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, Japan's government divided the country into two cellular-phone regions, with NTT operating in both and one fully private competitor in each. Though it has flourished elsewhere in Japan, Motorola maintains that it has been handicapped in the Tokyo-Nagoya corridor, the more profitable of the two areas, where its phones are incompatible with the NTT transmitting system...
...McCaw Cellular , Communications, the nation's biggest cellular operator, which is being acquired by AT&T for $12.6 billion. Even though it will cost at least $2.5 billion to rebuild the SMR system into a cellular network, Nextel, which is backed by Comcast Corp. and Japan's Matsushita & Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, intends to have a coast-to-coast wireless network up and running...
Treacle like that goes down easier when the storytelling is as confident and plainspoken as it is here. Unlike, say, the recent mini-series Queen, Dr. Quinn is hokum without an agenda, other than re-creating some old-time TV pleasures. The town characters -- a naive telegraph operator, a good-hearted prostitute, a smoldering hunk who hangs out with a pet wolf -- are colorful in the innocent, pre-Bochco sense of the word, and the series has sweep and moral heft. (For the opening credits, the screen is even masked at the top and bottom to simulate a CinemaScope epic...
...they say, are little more than Band-Aid solutions that cover up deep financial and technological wounds. IBM's challenge is not just to shrink in size but also to remake itself completely into a nimbler and more market-oriented player, in much the same way that American Telephone & Telegraph reshaped itself after the breakup of the Bell System eight years ago. And even that would hardly be enough to restore IBM's dominance in an increasingly fast-moving and decentralized industry that is becoming less and less dependent on a single pacesetter...