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NII pavers may go on strike
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 09:48:51 -0500
ERBOCS THREATEN SUPERHIGHWAY STRIKE The regional phone companies are unhappy with some of the provisions in a Senate bill that would allow them to offer cable-TV services to their telephone customers, and say that if the bill passes in its current form, they will stop building the information highway. At issue is a provision that would keep the RBOCs out of the long distance business until they could prove substantial competition in the local service market. (Wall Street Journal 5/5/94 B8) and CHEAPER E-MAIL BY CELLULAR DIGITAL PACKET DATA Cellular companies are working on a wireless data technology called cellular digital packet data. Its main attraction is the low cost of sending e-mail messages. Bell Atlantic, which is the first company to offer the service commercially, estimates an e-mail user who sends 14 messages a day would pay about $50 a month for the wireless service -- about half what it costs now through various messaging and e-mail services. (Investor's Business Daily 5/5/94 A3) and HIGH-TECH SPIES Canada's Security Intelligence Review Committee says that foreign spies are working to steal the country's high-tech secrets but that the scope of the problem remains unknown. (Ottawa Sun 5/3/94 p. 17)
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