It was a highly personal kind of deal, done in a quiet hallway of a New York City hotel, man to man. The place was the Waldorf Astoria, and the players were Robert Allen, chairman of AT&T;, and Craig McCaw, head of McCaw Cellular Communications. In the middle of an edgy negotiation, they had left their factotums, emissaries and lieutenants behind and paced the corridor together for just 20 minutes before shaking hands on a transaction in which the largest U.S. telephone company would buy the No. 1 provider of cellular service for $12.6 billion in stock. In the process, Craig...
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