Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still contend with those ornery Baby Bells. Even if all 33 million households in neighborhoods that TCI serves were to buy AT&T local service, the company would remain shut out of two-thirds of the country's homes. Armstrong hopes to make inroads with a so-called fixed wireless system that AT&T is developing to deliver household service through cellular technology. But in the end, he acknowledges, as many as 25% of U.S. homes will remain beyond AT&T's reach--unless it can strike deals with the Bells and other local phone companies...
...strategies into their cell phones, oblivious to people like me: decent, hardworking folk who may have sleepless infants at home and who look forward to a little nap time. Last week I came up with a way to protect my constitutional Right to Snooze. But first I needed a wireless phone...
...handheld revolution, will unveil a voice-activated electronic secretary, code-named Serengeti, that lets users dial in from their cell phones and ask to hear phone messages, e-mail, addresses, appointments, stock quotes and news. The service, due this summer, responds to normal speech and will be available from wireless carriers for $20 to $30 a month...
...call you up.' So I chugged a couple ofdrinks, I can't remember what I was drinking atthe time, I think it was rum, and all of a suddenI hear `Is there a harmonica player out there?'And I come running over the monitors, jump up onstage, grab the wireless mike and I just startedwailing. I remember the whole crowd moving in, Ifelt like Jon Bon Jovi or something...
...company brought the Internet to West Africa, and in 1995 Ghana became the second sub-Saharan nation to have full connectivity. "We're sharing the same information as everyone else in the world," says Quaynor. His most prized client: President Rawlings, an avid Web surfer. Soon, Quaynor hopes, wireless technology will let the phone-short country leap straight into airborne access