Some parts of the former Bell system have been nothing less than stock market rockets.
With the monopolistic Bell System setting the pace, U.S. corporate spending on research and development took off in the 1920s.
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Exclude remnants of the Bell system and only four high tech firms make the top fifty: IBM, Intel, Motorola and Microsoft.
Mr Hardwick also said that, if there were to be an emergency, "the dysfunctional cell call bell system gave us no confidence that officers would promptly attend".
As it stands now, wireless carriers get to control not just what sorts of services they sell, but the kinds of devices that can be hooked to those services, much like the old Bell System, critics argue.
If you had shares in the Bell system before divestiture and held them through the myriad mergers, subsequent divestitures and stock splits, you'd now have stakes in 11 telecommunications firms, including such performers as Lucent Technologies, BellSouth and SBC Communications.
The Class of 1998 posed for its official picture on the Capitol steps in the morning before a day of closed-door orientation sessions that ranged from a general introduction to politics to logistical issue like the House bell system, how to vote and the layout of the sprawling Capitol Hill complex.
Ms Swift said that when Shipman's crimes came to light it was down to the clumsy way he forged Mrs Grundy's will and not because of any "warning bell" activated by the system.
Jeffrey Bell, a Republican consultant who works with Hispanic groups, says the momentum behind reforming the immigration system will make a bill "unstoppable" if the Senate and House pass bills and then confer to meld the two.
However, unlike the Bell South packet network used by such devices as the RIM pager and handheld products, the Palm operating system is not able to have e-mails pushed down to it automatically.
Ms Bell stressed the need for more permanent homes to be found for children as more children are entering the care system in Wales.
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