Businesses map plans for use of Tiger geographical files: Census Bureau data, now on disk, offer opportunities and headaches
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The US Bureau of the Census is selling its Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Reference (Tiger) data base files for $250 per state. Tiger is an extremely detailed map of the entire US, developed by computer and available on magnetic tape and CD-ROM. Tiger is the first data base to provide this level of mapping information for microcomputer use. Marketing, financial, delivery and direct mail businesses are interested in combining the sophisticated geographic data in Tiger with demographic data to analyze customer populations of interest. Applications software is being developed to produce 'smart map' systems from the Tiger data and to combine different types of data. Tiger is so complex that a geographical information system or other mapping software package is needed to make the data readily accessible and commercially useful.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1990
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Britain's plan to sell BT stake faces hurdles; British Telecom is meeting growing competition, toughened regulation
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The British government is attempting to sell its remaining 22 percent stake in British Telecommunications PLC for 5.2 million pounds sterling, or $7.76 billion. Some fund managers are cautious about purchasing the BT stock because the UK Office of Communications (Oftel) wants greater competition in the nation's telephone service. BT currently has more than nine-tenth of the UK telephone market. Cable and Wireless PLC is BT's only competitor at present, but 20 more firms have licenses to provide telephone service and another 40 have applied for licenses. As a result, potential buyers of the offering do not believe that BT's history of gross yields on shares exceeding 10 percent will necessarily hold in the future. The British government began privatizing BT in 1984.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1993
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MCI to buy 25% stake in Infonet for $27.5 million
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MCI Communications Corp agrees to purchase a 25 percent stake in Infonet Services Corp from Computer Sciences Corp in an attempt to gain a foothold in the growing foreign market for computer services and data-switching networks. Infonet holds operating agreements in 34 countries and reports annual revenues of $100 million and a growth rate of 30 percent a year. Computer Sciences Corp will sell the remaining 5 percent of its shares to the central telecommunications administrations of 10 European and Asian countries that own 70 percent of Infonet. This action will make MCI the largest single shareholder, effectively making it a partner with the other shareholders.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1990
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