By Bill Edwards
Mary Ann Elliott dropped out of school
in the eighth grade to get married and have kids. Then she fought her way to the top of
the satellite communications business.

By Kathleen F. Phalen
Businesses must now maneuver through
tangled telecom options, constantly
scanning the underbrush for service
slammers and vaporware hucksters.
By Leigh Anne Larance
A merged Bell Atlantic and GTE could
mean lower rates for business customers. Or it could end local phone competition before it
even begins.
By Kathleen F. Phalen
In less than a year, WNP
Communications' owners made a $355 million profit on wireless licenses in a federal
auction.
By Dominic Perella
What to look for and
what to look out for.

By Robert Burke
One challenge for this area of
Virginia is getting the word out that it's thirsty for new industry.

By Marjolijn Bijlefeld
Manufacturers are no longer
self-sufficient islands. They're outsourcing everything from factory automoation to
environmental engineering.
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