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To: puzzlecraft who wrote (37373)	7/29/1999 6:36:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 152472

Vodafone & The Q> Vodafone to Sell Wireless Internet in 3 U.S. Markets (Update1) Vodafone to Sell Wireless Internet in 3 U.S. Markets (Update1) (Adds closing share prices.) San Francisco, July 29 (Bloomberg) -- Vodafone AirTouch Plc, the world's largest provider of wireless-phone services, said it will sell wireless Internet access in Seattle, Salt Lake City, and Michigan. The service, which will available nationwide by early next year through the company's AirTouch Cellular unit, allows customers with laptop computers to check the World Wide Web or their corporate networks while on the go -- without plugging into a phone line. The system uses a digital phone with a built-in modem, such as Qualcomm Inc.'s 860 Thin Phone. Per-minute charges are the same as for voice calls. AirTouch's ''Net Access'' service, introduced today, is the latest in a growing array of wireless Internet services from companies rushing to increase revenue from phone usage. In May, Nextel Communications Inc. got $600 million from Microsoft Corp. to develop Nextel Online. San Francisco-based AirTouch Cellular's service offers a connection time of 10 seconds or less, compared with as much as 30 seconds for a traditional desktop-computer modem, said Jonathan Marshall, an AirTouch spokesman. The new service operates at 14,400 characters per second -- considerably slower than the 56,000 characters per second of today's fastest dial-up modems. Still, that's faster than another widely used wireless technology, cellular digital packet data or CDPD. Vodafone AirTouch was created from last month's $76.6 billion merger of Vodafone Group Plc of the U.K. and AirTouch Communications Inc.