TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

FCC Adopts Personal Phone Plan: The plan will bring consumers a single telephone number that will ring them at home, work or anywhere else in the United States. It is designed to boost competition among provider companies, resulting in consumer charges well below what cellular phone service costs, FCC Chairman Reed Hundt said. The action marks the commission’s second attempt in less than a year to come up with a licensing scheme for the new service, known as broad-band personal communications service. License bidding could begin this fall.