Telecom Invest, which already owns stakes in 36 local mobile phone, paging and other telecommunications companies in northwest Russia, plans to spend $250 million on the project the next two years, though it said the total cost of a national network would be closer to $1 billion.
"I liked the idea of dealing with one person locally," says Scott Kingsborough, chief operating officer of Little Rock's Clear Mountain Spring Water Co. Kingsborough recently signed his firm up for Alltel long distance, local phone, paging and Internet-access service.
Rural telephone company Alltel., traded over the counter under the ticker symbol ALTEM, agreed to buy Aliant Communications alnt., which provides phone, paging and Internet services in Nebraska, for $1.5 billion in stock.
Because of the excess demand for cellular phones, paging services have become popular, and there are several in the country.
Mr. Gross's wizardry in wireless communications earned him a stack of patents foretelling the advent of things like cell phones, paging systems, garage-door openers and walkie-talkies.
E6 OBITUARIES B6 Al Gross The grandaddy of citizens' band radio known as Phineas Thaddeus Veeblefetzer, whose wizardry in wireless communications earned him a stack of patents foretelling the advent of things like cell phones, paging systems, garage-door openers and walkie-talkies, was 82.
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"She's literally on the phone with Page Six while she's in ECAB," Mr. Lankler said.
