NII pavers may go on strike

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

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)