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Monday
COLLEGIATE 4-H CLUB: will meet and elect officers in 200
Kleberg at 8 p.m.
TEXAS A&M TRAP 8c SKEET CLUB: will meet in 504 Rud
der at 8:30 p.m.
LGGIE SPACE DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY: will meet in
601 Rudder at 8:30 p.m.
[ONORS STUDENT COUNCIL: will meet in 410 Rudder
at 7:30 p.m.
CLASS OF ’88: is taking applications for Class Gift Commit
tee until Oct. 2 in 216 MSC.
TAMU JAZZ BAND: will rehearse in Commons West piano
room at 7:30 p.m. Also, a drummer is needed.
ISC WILEY LECTURE SERIES: Applicat ions for mem
bership are due today in 216 MSC at 5 p.m.
LTHEISTS, AGNOSTICS AND FREETHINKERS
SOCIETY: will meet in 305A-B Rudder at 7 p.m.
TAU BETA PI ENGINEERING HONOR SOCIETY: Dean
Chenoweth will speak on “Life After College” and “Engi
neering in the Real World” in 102 Zachry at 7:05 p.m.
INTRAMURAL SPORTS: Entries open for golf doubles, ul
timate frisbee and long drive contest in 159 Read.
Tuesday
RITING OUTREACH: Paul Meyer will discuss “Becoming
a Better Writer Through Reading” in 110 Blocker at 6:30
p.m.
ATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN: will meet in
305A-B Rudder at 8:30 p.m.
AVARRO HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet in 302 Rudder
at 8:30 p.m.
AMU HORSEMEN’S ASSOCIATION: will meet and ride
at the Dick Freeman Arena at 7 p.m.
EXAS STUDENT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: will
have a constitution meeting and ice-cream social in 302
Rudder at 7 p.m.
GGIES FOR JACK KEMP: will meet in 501 Rudder at 7
p.m.
KRISTIAN FACULTY FORUM PRESENTATION: Dr.
Walter Bradley will speak in 308 Rudder at 12:30 p.m.
OCIOLOGY CLUB: Dr. Jon Alston will speak in 125 Aca
demic at 7 p.m.
AGGIE ALLEMANDERS: will meet at the Pavilion at 7:30
p.m. and have square dance lessons.
AMU AQUATIANS: will teach synchronized swimming at
the indoor pool at 8 p.m.
NTRAMURAL SPORTS: Entries close for innertube water
basketball and tennis singles in 159 Read.
STUDENT GOVERNMENT: will have a informational meet
ing in 601 Rudder at 8:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome.
OLLEGIATE FFA: will meet in 208 Scoates at 7:30 p.m.
L PASO HOMETOWN CLUB: will meet in 401 Rudder at
7:30 p.m.
SPANISH CLUB: will meet at the Flying Tomato at 9 p.m.
AMU SCUBA CLUB: will meet in 402 Rudder at 7 p.m.
EXICAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: will meet in 607
■ Rudder at 7 p.m.
DATA PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION:
will present information on careers in data processing at
the Ramada Inn penthouse
AMU SAILING TEAM: will meet in 109 Military Sciences
at 7 p.m.
DLLEGE BOWL: will have demonstration games at Rudder
Fountain at noon.
AMERICAN WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION: Dr.
Mary Leigh Wolfe will speak in 110 Civil Engineering .
BAPTIST STUDENT UNION: will have a hullabaloo meet
ing in 201 MSC at 7 p.m.
Items for What’s Up should be submitted to The Battalion,
! 216 Reed McDonald, no less than three working days be
fore desired publication date.
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tion’s top market for car phones with
the highest percentage of cellular
telephones in any major U.S. metro-
said the Hip poliian area, an industry analyst
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ly for the Sai up from 22,000 in January,
ing heads of s' 1 economist Herschel Shosteck said.
.The 64 percent increase happened
pyyW'iiyvviili two of cellular phones’ largest
m.. ,f ’ user g rou p S — construction and real
estate — and in areas such as busi-
nefc sales, he said.
“It proves what people have al
ways thought — that Dallas would be
cellular’s ideal city,” said Shosteck,
whose Silver Spring, Md., firm
trafcks the cellular phone industry.
Cellular service is offered in 129
U.S. cities, and its customer base ac
counts for about I percent of the
population. But the base could grow
as nigh as 7 percent, analysts say.
Dallas’ cellular penetration rate is
l.Op percent, making it the only top
lOjmarket to break the 1 percent
barrier, Shosteck told the Dallas
Times Herald.
Cellular phones pass radio signals
Jetjveen transmitter “cells” as a car
noves through the city. Car phones
icepunt for the bulk of sales, but
land-held portables and portables
toted in briefcases are gaining pop-
tlarity as they are made smaller and
ighter, Shosteck said.
Nationwide, the cellular industry
xpects to have more than 1 million
ustomers by the end of the year, up
fom 655,000 a year ago, he said.
Ifhe two companies that provide
he cellular network for Dallas say
hey’ve only scratched the surface of
arket.
e could triple our size in the
text five years,” said Dan Yost, pres-
ient of MetroCel Cellular Tele
phone Co., which activated its net
work in March 1986.
Sales professionals, construction
crew chiefs and service company ex
ecutives are obvious target markets,
but companies also want to attract
casual users.
“We’re in the unusual position of
trying to downscale our image,”
John Stupka, chief executive officer
for Southwestern Bell Mobile Sys
tems, which began providing cellular
service to Dallas in mid-1984, said.
“We’ve got to persuade people they
don’t have to be affluent to have a
cellular phone.”
The lowest-priced phones sell for
an average of $1,071, down from
$2,628 in 1983, Shosteck said. By
1990, technology advances and com
petition among more than 15 phone
manufacturers are expected to force
phone prices below $500, he said.
Both companies in Dallas lease car
phones at less than $30 a month.
Air-time fees are 38 cents per min
ute during prime time, which is 7
a.m. to 8 p.m.
Casual users can keep their
monthly bill around $50, Stupka
said. The average monthly rate
among all Southwestern Bell cellular
customers is $130, he said.
But some professionals pay much
more. Kay Flynn, a real estate agent,
said she spends nearly $300 a month
for air time.
“I couldn’t live without it now,”
Flynn said. “I show three times the
number of houses, and one commis
sion pays the cost for the whole
year.”
Neither MetroCel nor Southwes
tern Bell releases data about its cus
tomer base, but Shosteck said South
western Bell had 23,700 Dallas-area
customers through March 31, com
pared to 14,300 for MetroCel.
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