M2 PRESSWIRE-28 February 2007-Delta-Air: Delta Air Lines selects new communications chiefC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:27022007 ATLANTA - Delta Air Lines today announced that Jeff Battcher has joined the company's senior management team as vice president - Corporate Communications, filling a vacant...
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission faced tough questions from a Senate panel Thursday over his comments that he would not enforce a key condition the FCC imposed before approving of the AT&T-BellSouth merger. At a Senate Commerce Committee hearing Thursday, Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye,...
AT&T and BellSouth got the FCC's nod to merger, creating a global communications company the two say will be "committed to driving convergence, continued innovation, and competition in the communications and entertainment market." The transaction consolidates ownership and management of Cingular Wireless, the nation's leading provider of...
The Federal Communications Commission's handling of the $85 billion AT&T-BellSouth merger sets a "new baseline" for protecting the interests of consumers, FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein said in an interview over the weekend. The FCC's approval of the merger on Friday allowed the deal to close immediately. To secure the FCC's...
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission unanimously approved AT&T Inc.'s $86 billion buyout of BellSouth Corp. Friday, the day after the company offered a new slate of concessions for consumers and competitors. The FCC's approval was the last major regulatory hurdle for the proposed deal, which is...
WASHINGTON AFP — US regulators gave final approval Friday to AT and T's takeover of rival BellSouth, the biggest telecommunications merger in US history, saying it will lead to "significant public interest benefits." The companies immediately said they had finalized the deal that establishes "a premier global communications company committed...
M2 PRESSWIRE-27 December 2006-U.S. Equity News: Verizon Markets Services at Mall Stores and AT&T, BellSouth Nearing FCC ApprovalC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:27122006 City of Industry, CA - Telecommunications industry alert provided by U.S. Equity News. Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) has flooded...
Byline: Jeffrey Silva Federal Communications Commission member Robert McDowell officially disqualified himself from consideration of the stalled $79 billion merger of AT&T Inc. and BellSouth Corp., blasting the agency's top lawyer's legal argument supporting his participation and denying Chairman Kevin Martin...
WASHINGTON AFP — The biggest telecommunications merger in US history, AT and T's planned takeover of rival BellSouth, is in jeopardy as a result of a deadlock among US regulators. The five-member Federal Communications Commission put its plans for approval of the massive deal on hold this week after one...
Byline: JEFFREY SILVA Key House Democrats and consumer groups said Federal Communications Commission member Robert McDowell should remain on the sidelines of AT&T Inc.'s stalled $79 billion acquisition of BellSouth Corp., arguing the agency's general counsel offered feeble legal reasoning for...
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission's top lawyer on Friday authorized a commission member to vote on the proposed buyout of BellSouth Corp. by AT&T Inc., despite an apparent conflict of interest. The move could break a deadlock on the deal. The decision came a week after FCC...
Byline: JEFFREY SILVA Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), the incoming chairman of the House Commerce Committee, sent mixed signals about how he wants the Federal Communications Commission to proceed on AT&T Inc.'s pending $79 billion acquisition of BellSouth Corp. that will merge the...
The US FCC delays a vote on the proposed buy-out of BellSouth by AT&T until November 3 at the latest after two Democrats asked for time to study last-minute concessions offered by the companies.
The Federal Communications Commission FCC has gotten an earful (eyeful?) from an eclectic bunch of merger comments on the 2l "conditions and concessions" AT&T proposes in exchange for approval of its BellSouth and Cingular Wireless takeovers worth more than $80 billion in purchase price and debt...
Byline: JEFFREY SILVA Consumer groups and wireless carriers last week said AT&T Inc.'s proposed conditions to its $79 billion purchase of BellSouth Corp. are inadequate, creating uncertainty over whether the Federal Communications Commission can pull off a planned Nov. 3 vote on...
In a seldom-seen move to reach consensus, the Federal Communications Commission FCC on Friday opened up for public scrutiny a series of conditions and apparent broadband-deployment, goal-oriented concessions AT&T and BellSouth are prepared to support in exchange for the last official green light on their proposed...
The Justice Department has approved AT&T Inc.'s $78.5 billion purchase of BellSouth Corp. The Federal Communications Commission must make the final decision on the deal that will create the nation's biggest provider of phone, wireless and broadband Internet services. If the deal gets the OK, AT&T will have total control...
