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* Nextel Communications Inc. said it enhanced its $1.36-billion plan to reduce interference between its mobile phones and police radios by offering to turn over additional frequencies to public-safety agencies.

* Providian Financial Corp., a San Francisco-based issuer of credit cards, agreed to pay $65 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that it misled investors about how it would perform in two quarters of 2001.

* SBC Communications Inc. will provide high-speed wireless Internet access in as many as 6,000 McDonald’s Corp. restaurants by the middle of 2005.

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