DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c50171) has announced the addition of "SBC Communications Inc - Company Profile and Executive Databank" to their offering.
JANUARY * Technology giant EDS Corp. is purchasing Towers Perrin's benefit administration unit for $420 million. As part of the transaction, EDS and Towers Perrin will form a new venture, combining Towers Perrin's benefits administration services and EDS' existing payroll and HR-related outsourcing...
Human Resource Executive has named Karen Jennings, SBC Communications Inc.'s senior executive vice president of human resources and communications, its 2005 HR Executive of the Year for her outstanding contributions to their organizations. Former congressman Lionel van Deerlin received the Golden Dedication-Lifetime Achievement Award from the South County Economic Development...
The Federal Communications Commission approved the mergers of SBC Communications Inc. with AT&T Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc. with MCI Inc. The Commission concluded that consumers will reap the rewards of the public-interest benefits that will flow from these mergers. These benefits include integration of complementary networks, which will...
WASHINGTON -- Regulators agreed Monday to approve SBC Communications' takeover of AT&T and Verizon Communications' purchase of MCI -- deals that allow the nation's biggest phone companies to grow bigger -- but with conditions. By 4-0 votes, the Federal Communications Commission approved the multibillion-dollar mergers with conditions that...
(This article originally appeared in the Idaho Business Review, Boise, ID, another Dolan Media publication.)It has been interesting to see how technologies leapfrog each other. Take the Web logging or blogging phenomenon as an example. By using blogging software or Web sites created for blogging, just about anyone can post...
Two multibillion-dollar telecom mergers could clear their final federal hurdle today and be approved, with conditions, by the Federal Communications Commission. SBC Communications, which is buying AT&T, and Verizon, which is buying MCI, were close Sunday night to agreeing to concessions aimed at promoting competition and preventing the companies...
WASHINGTON AFP — The Federal Communications Commission approved SBC Communications' acquisition of AT and T Corp. and Verizon's purchase of MCI, increasing the size of the two largest US telecom groups. The FCC's four commissioners -- one seat is vacant -- voted just days after antitrust reviewers at the...
WASHINGTON -- The nation's two biggest local phone companies received approval Thursday from antitrust regulators to buy the two largest long-distance carriers in multibillion-dollar mergers that would change the landscape of the telecommunications industry. The Justice Department cleared the mergers of SBC Communications Inc. with AT&T and of...
M2 PRESSWIRE-28 October 2005-AT&T: SBC/AT&T merger receives clearance from U.S. Department of Justice; Combined company to divest certain assets; Decision underscores competitive realities of marketplaceC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:28102005 SAN ANTONIO, Texas, and BEDMINSTER, N.J. - SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:...
WASHINGTON AFP — The US Justice Department approved the telecommunications industry mega-mergers of Verizon with MCI and SBC Communications with AT&T, subject to the divestiture of some operations by both groups. The approvals clear a major hurdle to the deals that create two telecom powerhouses in the United States....
Two big mergers that will reshape the telecom industry appear set to clear major hurdles as early as this week. SBC Communications tentatively has agreed to a key concession to win antitrust approval for its purchase of AT&T, and Verizon has done the same for its merger with MCI,...
DENVER -- Qwest Communications officials pressed their case Wednesday for the government to impose restrictions on two telecommunications mergers, reiterating their contention the pending deals could hurt competition and raise prices. As proposed, the unions of SBC Communications Inc. and AT&T and Verizon Communications Inc. and MCI Inc....
Michigan Chronicle 09-27-2005 SBC Communications, Inc. [NYSE: SBC] recently announced that the SBC Foundation, its charitable giving arm, will provide a dollar-for-dollar match of contributions -- up to a total corporate contribution of $1 million -- by regular full-time employees and eligible retirees with funds directed to the American Red...
Michigan Chronicle 09-27-2005 SBC Communications, Inc. [NYSE: SBC] recently announced that the SBC Foundation, its charitable giving arm, will provide a dollar-for-dollar match of contributions -- up to a total corporate contribution of $1 million -- by regular full-time employees and eligible retirees...
As federal regulators weigh what, if any, conditions to impose on two mammoth phone company mergers, they face a vexing Rubik's cube of possibilities. Any requirements they attach to SBC Communications' acquisition of AT&T and Verizon's purchase of MCI could force some customers to do business with a telecom...
Washington -- Within a few days of filing some paperwork and putting up a bond, phone companies would be able to waltz into cable markets and offer video programming with minimal local interference, according to House draft legislation circulated last week. In...
Net Neutrality Also in House Proposal Washington-- Within a few days of filing some paperwork and putting up a bond, phone companies would be able to waltz into cable markets and offer video programming with minimal local interference, according to House draft legislation circulated last...
M2 PRESSWIRE-14 September 2005-Wall Street News Alert: Early Morning Stock Alert! September 14, 2005C1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:14092005 Weston, FLA. - Wall Street News Alert's "stocks to watch" this morning are: MidNet, Inc. (OTCBB: MIDX), FiberNet Telecom Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:...
This time the telcos mean it. Years ago, phone company leaders promised to invade cable markets with the latest in pay-video technology. Some did, rolling out hybrid fiber coaxial and wireless networks here and there. But those efforts were tentative at best and ultimately collapsed. ...
