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- BUSINESS, Page 49Business NotesTELECOMMUNICATIONSCalling All Car Phones
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- McCaw Cellular Communications is already the largest
- operator in the seven-year-old cellular-telephone business,
- controlling franchise areas with more than 50 million residents
- throughout 127 small and medium-size markets across the U.S.
- Last week the company sought to build up its metropolitan
- business by making a $5.9 billion bid for New York City's LIN
- Broadcasting, which reaches 18 million potential phone
- subscribers in such major cities as New York, Los Angeles and
- Dallas.
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- For Craig McCaw, the 39-year-old chairman of the company,
- which is based in Kirkland, Wash., the bid for LIN caps a
- stunning sprint of growth. Since 1973, McCaw has parlayed a
- backwater cable-TV franchise into a cellular firm with annual
- revenues of $311 million.
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