Cellular phone deals for alert buyers

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As cellular telephone purchases increase and prices fall, competition among manufacturers and service providers is intensifying. Phone prices have fallen to as little as $50 in some cases, and as prices decline, more and more people buy cellular phones. Buying a phone can be a complicated procedure: there are three kinds of phones (mobile phones, for inside a car; transportable phones, for inside or outside a car; and portable phones, for outside use); and there are as many as seven different plans for buying cellular services. According to Dataquest Inc, a research company, cellular phone sales are expected to increase 48 percent in 1990, bringing the total number to almost 5 million. The phone base could increase by another 34 percent in 1991, and one observer expects that prices will come down 20 percent to 30 percent through the mid-1990s.

Telephone and telegraph apparatus, Purchasing, Cellular telephones, Wireless telephones, Statistics, Telephone, Telephony, Cellular telephone equipment industry, Sales, Hardware Selection, Telephones, Cellular Radio

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Beepers, in a new role, keep families in touch

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Beepers, otherwise known as radio pagers, are being used in new ways, often for personal or family reasons. Short-term rental arrangements are appearing in response to this market. Metromedia Paging Services, Secaucus, NJ, offers daily or weekly beeper rentals through a supermarket chain, Schnucks Markets. The cost is $2 to $3.50 a day or $10 to $17.50 a week. Paging involves a one-way communication system that transmits using radio waves. About 600 companies in the US now offer variations on four kinds of paging services: tone only; tone and a brief voice message; numeric, which displays a phone number to be called; and alphanumeric, which displays up to 1,000 characters of text. At some schools, pagers are outlawed because their use is associated with dealings in illegal drugs.

Radiotelephone communications, Usage, Services, Radio pagers, Pagers (Communication devices), Pager Systems, Radio Communication, Renting, Metromedia Paging Services Inc.

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Some likely contenders for Bethlehem's top job

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Officials and employees, Forecasts and trends, Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Steel industry, Bethlehem Steel Corp., Foy, Lewis W., Smith, Richard M., Trautlein, Donald H., Schubert, Richard F.

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