BellSouth and Dow expand data venture

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BellSouth Corp and Dow Jones are market-testing Personal Info Clips, an information service targeted for BellSouth's cellular telephone customers in Los Angeles, CA. The service provides users access to the news reports of Dow Jones, the parent company of The Wall Street Journal. Testing of the service in LA will take three months; by the end of 1992, it will be tested in Atlanta, GA, where BellSouth headquarters is located. Details of other cooperative services by BellSouth and Dow Jones are not revealed although officials hint that they will involve more than telephones. The partnership between the two companies takes place in the light of a growing conflict between telephone companies and the newspaper industry, which questions the propriety of allowing local telephone lines to be used for providing information services. Dow Jones has not joined in the fray as a large segment of its business involves the repackaging of data through telephone lines.

Newspapers, Radio & TV communications equipment, Telephone communications, exc. radio, Periodicals, Planning, Telephone companies, Information services, BellSouth Corp., BLS, Tests, Dow Jones & Company Inc., Telephone Company, Testing, Cooperative Agreements

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Raychem wins a German phone contract

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Raychem Corp will provide telephone services to the former East Germany as part of a $100 million contract. The company will also process test some of the most advanced fiber optic features available. Raychem is participating in the German government's five-year $30 billion program designed to deliver a working phone system to Eastern Germany's technologically-lacking sections. Many companies had refused to work in East Germany because there were so few working phones around. When the Berlin Wall came down, the government decided it was time to build telecommunications and Deutsche Bundespost Telekom made plans to install six million business and residential lines, and replace the existing network. Raynet, a division of Raychem, won a contract to build 48,500 lines in five German cities.

Nonferrous wiredrawing & insulating, Electrical equipment & supplies, not elsewhere classified, Germany, Contracts, Telecommunications Service, Raychem Corp., RYC

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