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...just one of millions of people worldwide joining the wireless troops...
...recent months. One deal was intended to enable CyberWorks to distribute Chinese-language content to the mainland. CyberWorks has also been unable to persuade Japanese Internet giant Softbank to distribute its Network of the World (NOW), a broadband Internet service delivered across Asia to television sets, computers and wireless devices. "This suggests it isn't as attractive as its potential partners once thought it was," says Chris Cheung, an investment analyst with Worldsec International in Hong Kong...
ALEX MANDL One of the first marquee execs to jump ship for a start-up, he resigns as AT&T president in 1996 to head unknown wireless telecom Teligent. At least he got the $20 million signing bonus up front. WAS WORTH: $188 million last year NOW WORTH: $1.93 million, with 3 million options underwater...
...Theoretically, investors will like most of their choices. Essentially, the plan (dubbed "Project Grand Slam") would be a financial quarantining of its ailing long-distance operation, which would get its own tracking stock and operate as a separate retail arm, according to reports. AT&T's wireless unit and cable television operation would each be spun off as an independent company over the next 12 to 24 months. The company's biggest and most profitable unit, the corporate-minded Business Services department, would become the new AT&T, and coordinate brand-licensing and commercial agreements with the other three...
...there a trend in the works? Nearly everyone in the telecom sector is having a tough time of it these days. The cable/broadband revolution has been slow to flower, and the race to the high-speed Web between wireless, cable and DSL has been far from settled. As tech marches on, some of AT&T's businesses will thrive; others will be left behind. The strategy, apparently, is to hedge one's bets with investors - investors who these days are more selective than ever with their tech buys and fully willing to punish a behemoth that might just...