DEALMAKER AIMS TO MAKE BUCKS FROM USN MESS: CAN HE MAINTAIN RED-HOT TRACK RECORD IN CHICAGO TELECOM MARKETPLACE?(Barclay Knapp to combine operations of USN Communications Inc., MegsInet Inc. and CoreComm Ltd.)

Crain's Chicago Business,  March, 1999  by ROSE, BARBARA

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Cellular telephones were a luxury in 1987 when Barclay Knapp figured out a way to broaden the market by leasing the $2,000 phones, making them more affordable. Such smart marketing helped him and his partners grow Ohio's Cellular Communications Inc. (CCI) into one of the largest independent U.S.

cellular operators before it sold for $2.5 billion in 1996 to a predecessor of California-based AirTouch Communications Inc. Now, they plan to use two less-than-promising Chicago companies -- financially ailing USN Communications Inc. and tiny Internet service provider MegsInet Inc. -- ...

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