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Show l.'C .x-jCs'- : ; : ; ; i Llii r r A number of business people have found better ways to keep in touch with their offices and therefore increase their earning power. Mobile phones and pagers, once believed to be only for doctors and top executives, can be very useful for people on the go in all walks of life. There's a stockbroker, for example, who uses his car phone to get in early bids on foreign markets while driving to work. Reporters use pagers to get a good scoop, sales people to be sure of getting a great sale. Ranchers and farmers have found them very valuable for keeping in touch with far-flung field workers and even for calling in the cows. Flight attendants find being on call can be a lot more convenient when the call comes through on the beeper. Plumbers, electricians elec-tricians and others who U JM IIMllfllrWil-rWlJlUWtUl'lJUWMj.l'illJCV C TTT"? make service calls may receive even more calls when not at home, thanks to beepers. These useful mobile communicating com-municating devices are available from Rfcl.o Common Carriers (KLCs), licensed independent mobile communications companies which provide radiopaging (one-way) and mobile telephone tele-phone (two-way) services over radio channels authorized autho-rized by the Federal Com- munications Comm- I (FCC). The indus'4 created in 1949 by an ruling assigning SD(,,.1' transmitting frequenci 7 RCC operators in an el to establish competition f the telephone industry a'! achieve better public,., vice. RCCs are primarily sma, I privately-owned local bu nesses which own, opera, ' lease, maintain and deliv., mobile communication equipment and services.' " i ii i i ii ii |