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26Percentage of wireless customers who use their cell phones to take picturesMore Vitals
| |   Here Comes the Real Fun for Telecom This will be the year that long-distance and local calling get reunited in one business. The resulting upheaval -- including monster mergers -- is sure to turn the industry upside down Can AT&T Uncross Its Wires? Chairman and CEO David Dorman is having a "bad dream," and if the FCC's coming rule changes go against him, it could be a nightmare Are BellSouth and AT&T Altar-Bound? While Wall Street is pondering a Sprint-BellSouth deal, the Baby Bell may actually be inching toward picking up Ma Bell Telecom-Gear Makers: Wrong Numbers Their stocks are showing some life lately, but beware: Not until their primary telecom customers get healthier will the good times roll Eating Asia's Broadband Dust Unlike the halting and financially crippling rollout of high-speed access in the U.S., in the Far East it has gone much faster and cheaper | |
 COMMENTARY How Telecom Can Turn Itself Around Yes, 2003 can be the start of something good. It won't be easy or quick, but the industry has ways to start marching toward better days (1/2/03) NEWS ANALYSIS A Nationwide Brawl over Local Phones The bitter dispute between the Baby Bells and new rivals for local calling services is landing in the FCC's lap for a resolution (11/19/02) STREET WISE AT&T Has Trouble on the Line In the telecom free-for-all, no one has more to lose than Ma Bell. Even picking up some of WorldCom's customers may not help (10/22/02) COMMENTARY When Telecom Regulation = Competition Despite the Baby Bells' howls, states are wisely slashing the access rates that Bells charge their local-service rivals (10/17/02) | |
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