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Crow Wing Co-op adds power by diversifying

...network is the next generation of wireless communications. Crow Wing Power will help expand the Aerial PCS wireless phone network in the Brainerd lakes area. Under Access Plus, customers wil not incur long-distance charges when using their digital...

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Business
Don't pick up that phone

...Year's Day to be one of the busiest calling periods in history. "We've spent the past three years preparing the phone network for the year 2000 and it's now Y2K ready," William White, US West executive director of Y2K preparedness, said...

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News
Make free calls from your computer

...startup, is the latest entrant in the battle to turn the Internet into a medium that competes with the traditional phone network. The most interesting thing about Dialpad is that it works. Sitting at my computer, I was able to call all over...

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Tech
A year on the road, untethered

...exclusively using land lines. But for me, the rate of problems remains at a tolerable level. While accessibility of the phone network may not be perfect, I rate it high. This aspect of cellular use appears to be the one we hear more whining about...

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Tech
FCC adopts major changes to reduce consumer phone bills

...company into the home and is capped at $3.50 a month. A second pays for long-distance companies' use of the local phone network. It now averages about $1.50 per month. These two costs will be consolidated and reduced to $4.35. It rises...

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New virus could be used to cripple cell phone networks

...WASHINGTON -- A new virus targeting a Spanish-based cell phone network foreshadows a growing threat to the cell phones, pagers...computer. Yet Telefonica, owner of Spain's largest cell phone network, said it had received no reports of problems...

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Y2K plus one

...uncorrected, the Y2K glitch could have fouled computers that control power grids, air traffic, banking systems and phone networks. Businesses and governments around the world threw some $200 billion at the problem -- and then they watched nervously...

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Tech
Planes destroy World Trade Center; another plane crashes into Pentagon; troops deployed in response to apparent terrorist attack

...rushed from their office buildings throughout the nation's capital, eager to leave a city under siege. The cell phone networks were overloaded, clusters of people sprayed on the sidewalks and at least one suburban school district announced...

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Next target for computer viruses: Cell phones

...Draper, now a designer of computer security software, is still known as Captain Crunch for pioneering the hacking of phone networks with the help of a plastic whistle that came in a box of the eponymous breakfast cereal. "You could control the...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/031602/tec_0316020037.shtml
Tech
Long-distance companies are getting short shrift

As long-distance companies watch their calls and profits slip away to rivals such as cellular phone networks, the day may soon come when their business -- once considered a pillar of American enterprise -- simply ceases to exist. Krystin...

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