By Ellen Simon
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK -- AT&T Corp. bused 3,000 employees to Washington, D.C., in July 1995 to beg lawmakers to kill new telecom legislation designed to make their industry more competitive.
Before they trooped into congressional offices, CEO Robert Allen addressed them by video and declared: «Like it or not, our future is at stake inside that building.» The theme song from «Rocky» blared.
At the time, it was hard to think of the fat telecommunications giant as having anything in common with the underdog movie boxer. Sure, its 1984 breakup meant it was no longer Ma Bell, the nation’s primary phone company. But it had dominated the industry for the better part of a century and its stock was still in nearly every investor’s portfolio.
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By LENIE LECTURA
TODAY Reporter
Globe Telecom has started to offer money transfer service through short message service (SMS), two months after its rival Smart Communications Inc. launched a similar service.
In a newspaper advertisement, Globe said the cash transfer service also allows its subscribers to use their mobile phone handset to pay for movie tickets, medicine, books and fares. With a subscriber base of more than 12 million, Globe is looking at expanding its wireless services and not relying solely on subscriber additions and traditional phone services to help boost revenues.
Globe had predicted that cellular penetration rate by next year will hit 45 percent to 50 percent which means that the number of cellular phone users in the country will reach half of the 86 million population.
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Boulder — Will Kuntzelmann hunches over a homework assignment at the University of Colorado law library, his laptop and cellphone within easy reach.
A business major, the 19-year-old Kuntzelmann uses a wireless connection on his laptop to surf the Internet for information on the genetic modification of food. He breaks to take a cellphone call.
Kuntzelmann, who lives with three roommates and no wire-line phone, could be a poster boy for a wireless generation.
«I don’t know anyone who has a wire line,» he said.
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By CLAUDINE SAN NICOLAS, Staff Writer
WAILUKU -- Lisa Parker, the mother of a soldier ordered to war duty, has stayed away from programs designed to provide community support to relatives of deployed soldiers.
But Parker changed her mind Saturday and showed up with about 200 other family members of deployed soldiers in Iraq for the Volunteer Center of Maui County’s family support party. She found she could relax with other families that are missing loved ones.
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I saw the Oct. 6, article about the child who saved her daddy’s life through the 911 system. My adult daughter, Jennifer Martyn, did the same for me on Sept. 11, 2004.
I live in Curwensville, she lives in York. We were talking on the phone; she on her cell phone. I went down the steps to the dryer, carrying the cordless phone. I over-stepped the first step. I went down all the steps on my back, after hitting my head on the first step.
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