The Baby Bells won a victory on August 15 when a US appeals court said they could deny broadband access on most of their modern fiber-optic lines to DSL rivals. The 1996 Telecommunications Act required existing carriers to give rivals access to their equipment...
AT&T's relationship with the federal government has been a century in the making. The company was founded in 1885 and over the next century became the nation's de facto phone monopoly. At its peak in the early 1980s, it employed 1 million people. In 1984, the Bell Telephone System...
WASHINGTON -- Wireless carriers could glean a lesson or two from last month's FCC approved of the SBC Communications/AT&T and Verizon Communications/MCI mergers, which marked an end to the two toughest long-distance competitors, analysts say. The wireless children of SBC and Verizon...
If you want to hear some plain talk about the frenzied competition between the Baby Bells and the cable providers to market bundled services, seek out Randy Luther, vice president of construction technology for Centex Homes in Dallas. When Luther talked with Builder, he...
Baby Bells Score Win With Martin Bid for 'Level' Field Washington-- The Baby Bells won a big victory at the Federal Communications Commission Friday, as the agency voted to deregulate their high-speed data services in an effort to create regulatory parity with market-leading cable companies....
America's telecoms sector is consolidating, but that is good, not bad, for competition IT LOOKS suspiciously like a return to the past. In 1984 a federal judge ordered the break-up of AT&T, America's telephone monopoly, on antitrust grounds to inject some sorely needed competition...
Regulatory roulette is now underway, with federal lawmakers holding initial committee hearings about telecom reform, a new FCC commissioner in place and the "light regulatory touch" embraced by Michael Powell, the former chairman, likely to dominate the landscape. Rewriting the 1996 Telecom Act is likely to be a long...
SBC Communications on Sunday night was close to concluding a $16 billion deal for its former parent, AT&T, that would lead to the virtual disappearance of one of America's best known corporate icons and set off what promises to be a new round of competition between the Baby Bells, executives...
Will former telecom heavyweight AT&T be gobbled up by a Baby Bell? Reports quoting unnamed executives say that San Antonio, Texas-based SBC Communications may acquire its Bedminster-based progenitor for $15 billion. AT&T spokesman Jim Byrnes says he "cannot comment on what is considered to be a rumor." SBC was spun...
SBC COMMUNICATIONS, the No 2 US telecoms company, is in talks to acquire the US long-distance carrier AT&T for more than $15bn (pounds 8bn) to bolster its business with large corporations, sources familiar with the talks said yesterday. Such a deal would likely spell the end for...
NEW YORK AFP — In what could spell the end of an American corporate icon, SBC Communications was reported to be in talks to buy AT&T Corp. Such an acquisition would close the books on one of the greatest corporate empires ever built, the company once known as "Ma...
9th Circuit's Liberal Reputation, Track Record on Appeal Seen as Positives in Industry's Modem-Reg Fight Washington -- The odds favor cable in the Supreme Court. The high court has agreed to hear a case that could decide whether cable...
Ivan G. Seidenberg 1946– Chairman and chief executive officer, Verizon Nationality: American.Born: December 10, 1946, in New York City, New York.Education: City University of New York, BA, 1972; Pace University, MBA, 1980.Family: Son of Howard owner of an electrical supply shop and Kitty Zaretsky Seidenberg; married Phyllis A. Maisel; children:...
WASHINGTON -- Cable operators and the Baby Bells are warriors in the marketplace, but they share some worries on Capitol Hill. In a speech last week in Las Vegas, Comcast Corp. chairman and CEO Brian Roberts told a phone industry group that...
By Peter J. Howe, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 13--AT&T Corp., MCI Inc., and a number of smaller telephone companies were rebuffed by the US Supreme Court yesterday in their quest to save cut-rate deals to rent Bell System phone...
By Kyle Stock, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 1--Small and midsized businesses in South Carolina may see telecommunications costs rise an average of 25 percent as a result of a recent federal court ruling on telecommunications...
By Vikas Bajaj, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 11--In the last eight years, 19 million consumers and small businesses switched their local-phone company and millions others signed up for discount calling plans from their existing Baby Bell provider....
By Vikas Bajaj, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 10--In a big victory for the nation's four local-phone giants, the Bush administration said Wednesday that it won't ask the Supreme Court to restore requirements that the companies rent their...
AT&T wants a federal court to delay a decision that could make the company's plans to offer widespread local telephone service hard to realize. The decision eliminates the requirement that Baby Bells lease parts of their networks to long-distance carriers at reduced rates. Local telephone carriers including Verizon and BellSouth...
Past deregulation has made a mess of the telecommunications industry. What does the Wall Street Journal think further deregulation will accomplish?The Wall Street journal's editors got their way. On March 2, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals voted to uphold Powell's proposal (voted down by the FCC last year 3-2)...
