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The WSJ has published a round-up of phone companies, wired and wireless,
ranking them based on performance and price. They don't mention Nextel, whose
hullking milspec i700 handset I've been carrying for years now, with incredible
reception all over the US and Canada. Their front-line customer service sucks,
but the prices and network can't be beat.
T-Mobile is in the midst of a massive makeover. In recent months, the
company changed its name and launched an ad campaign featuring Ms. Zeta
Jones.
The company has a history worth hiding. T-Mobile, a subsidiary of Deutsche
Telekom, is known for having a weak national network, and the FCC received
1,466 complaints about the company in the past year, giving it one of the
worst complaint rates in the industry. T-Mobile says their complaint rate
has tapered off and that they have made substantial network improvements.
But T-Mobile is the cheapest wireless provider, available, with an average
cost of just 8.2 cents per minute. (Verizon, by contrast, costs 14.3 cents
per minute.)
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[1] http://www.msnbc.com/news/816517.asp
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Man Threatens Explosion In Moscow
Thursday August 22, 2002 1:40 PM
MOSCOW (AP) - Security officers on Thursday seized an unidentified man who
said he was armed with explosives and threatened to blow up his truck in
front of Russia's Federal Security Services headquarters in Moscow, NTV
television reported.
The officers seized an automatic rifle the man was carrying, then the man
got out of the truck and was taken into custody, NTV said. No other details
were immediately available.
The man had demanded talks with high government officials, the Interfax and
ITAR-Tass news agencies said. Ekho Moskvy radio reported that he wanted to
talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Police and security forces rushed to the Security Service building, within
blocks of the Kremlin, Red Square and the Bolshoi Ballet, and surrounded the
man, who claimed to have one and a half tons of explosives, the news
agencies said. Negotiations continued for about one and a half hours outside
the building, ITAR-Tass and Interfax reported, citing witnesses.
The man later drove away from the building, under police escort, and drove
to a street near Moscow's Olympic Penta Hotel, where authorities held
further negotiations with him, the Moscow police press service said. The
move appeared to be an attempt by security services to get him to a more
secure location.
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