TECHNOLOGY & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Barksdale to Leave AT&T; Wireless Services: James L. Barksdale, chief executive of AT&T; Wireless Services (formerly McCaw Cellular Communications), will step down from the helm of the cellular giant to take over the top spot at Mountain View, Calif., start-up Netscape Communications, AT&T; announced. Barksdale, who left the No. 2 spot at Federal Express to become president of McCaw in 1991, was unhappy with AT&T;’s $11.5-billion acquisition of the company and had previously expressed a desire to remain his own boss. Steve Hooper, the wireless company’s chief financial officer and a 12-year veteran of McCaw, will succeed Barksdale as chief executive of AT&T; Wireless.
