[DOC] [TLE] Rejecting the Party Line, Craig McCaw Chooses to Bet Big on ... [PAR] What does Craig McCaw know -- or think he knows -- that no one else does? ... of 
Nextel Communications Inc., whose funky cell phones double as two-way radios. 
... Mr. McCaw also won very favorable financial terms, because of ICO's dire 
straits. ... Mr. McCaw believes more than ever in a wireless future, associates say. [DOC] [TLE] Craig McCaw's High-Risk Phone Bet - NYTimes.com [PAR] May 6, 1990 ... Essentially, Craig McCaw is betting that the public will want cellular phones. ... 
The challenge is that Craig McCaw signed a quintessential 1980's deal but .... 
Will its debt load jeopardize the company's ability to invest in the future? ... one 
telephone to another by radio antennas in each local area, or ''cell. [DOC] [TLE] AT&T to acquire largest cellular phone company McCaw takeover ... [PAR] Aug 17, 1993 ... The takeover of McCaw Cellular Communications of Kirkland, ... and 
automatically route them to a pager or pocket phone anywhere in the ... The 
takeover should also give AT&T a central spot in the still-infant market for mobile 
computing. ... During the 1980s, McCaw bet billions in borrowed money to snap... [DOC] [TLE] Craig McCaw - Wikipedia [PAR] Craig McCaw (born August 11, 1949) is an American businessman and 
entrepreneur, ... By the 1980s, McCaw Cablevision was the 20th largest cable 
carrier in the US. ... cellular carrier before the incumbent landline telephone 
industry took serious ... Clearwire Chairman Craig McCaw said, "The power of 
the mobile Internet,... [DOC] [TLE] AT&T Wireless Services - Wikipedia [PAR] AT&T Wireless Services, founded in 1987 as McCaw Cellular Communications, 
and now ... Savvy licensing of cellular spectrum in the early 1980s put McCaw 
Cellular in ... a merger in 1994 that made Craig McCaw one of AT&T's largest 
shareholders. .... AT&T Wireless' prepaid services, Go Phone, was adopted by 
Cingular... [DOC] [TLE] At&T's Bold Bet - Bloomberg [PAR] Aug 30, 1993 ... These range from EO Inc., a maker of a wireless "personal communicator" to ... 
He not only positions AT&T for the future, he immediately makes up for one of the 
company's biggest blunders of the 1980s--missing out on cellular. ... But the head 
won out. ... Craig McCaw also gains a seat on AT&T's board. [DOC] [TLE] AT&T Corp. facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ... [PAR] AT&T's business services segment, which the company regards as its future, .... 
He soon sold millions of dollars in bonds by offering them at a discount to ... 1993
: AT&T enters the cellular telephone business with the $12.8 billion acquisition of 
McCaw ... Craig retired in 1956, and Frederick R. Kappel became president. [DOC] [TLE] McCaw Cellular Communications - Revolvy [PAR] Savvy licensing of cellular spectrum in the early 1980s put McCaw Cellular ... The 
company purchased MCI Communications's mobile businesses in 1986, ... As a 
result of the merger, Craig McCaw became one of AT&T's largest .... Fabrikant, 
Geraldine, 'Craig McCaw's High-Risk Phone Bet,' New York Times, May 6, 1990. [DOC] [TLE] Google phone rising: The Android and the politics of open source ... [PAR] Aug 31, 2012 ... Microsoft's general counsel tweeted that the corporation had won a tense round 
in the ... as the new landscape in which the future of mobiles would be played out
. .... Google also developed a number of products for mobile phones, ... with Craig 
McCaw, the well-known pioneer of US cellular phones (Murray... [DOC] [TLE] A century of influence | Global Telecoms Business [PAR] Oct 1, 2008 ... Ericsson is one of the heavy promoters not just of mobile communications, ... 
telecoms, and has a lot more influence outside Europe than either of them. ..... 
moved to telephone equipment in the early 1980s and has since grown one of ..... 
Mobile pioneer at BT who joined Craig McCaw when BT was its early... [DOC] [TLE] Business | The Economist [PAR] This, in a nutshell, was

Question: In the 1980s Craig McCaw bet on the future of these mobile telephones & won
Answer: Cellular phones