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• SBC, competitors battle over use of shared phone lines.(Business)

  - 2002-11-27

  Byline: S. A. Mawhorr Daily Herald Business Writer If you owned a grocery store, would you allow competitors to fill your shelves with their goods and then steal your customers away with prices lower than yours? SBC Ameritech Illinois says something like...

  Tags: Ameritech, Baby Bell, FINANCE, network, phone

• Cambridge Protection to Acquire SecurityLink.(Brief Article)

  - 2001-01-01

  With the announcement that so-called Baby Bell SBC is selling SecurityLink to Cambridge Protection Industries, an affiliate of GTCR Golder Rauner, a leading private equity investment firm that has partnered with former SecurityLink exec Jim Covert, an era has ended, emphasizing what goes around comes around....

  Tags: Ameritech, Baby Bell, Cambridge, FINANCE, Investment, LLC

• SBC Hit by Market After Earnings Warning.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

  - 2000-12-20

  Dec. 20--SBC Communications yesterday became the latest corporation to signal slower growth in coming months and to suffer the stock market's wrath as a result. The Texas-based former Baby Bell's shares fell $6.75 to $46.56 in regular trading after officials announced a host of...

  Tags: Ameritech, analyst, Baby Bell, DSL, earnings, FINANCE, Investment, SBC Communications Inc., TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Verizon Communications Inc.

• AMERITECH-SBC MERGER DOWN TO THE WIRES: REGULATORS WILL PUSH BABY BELLS FOR CONCESSIONS.

  - 1999-05-17

  As the Illinois Commerce Commission wraps up 10 months of debate over Ameritech Corp.'s proposed merger with Texas' SBC Communications Inc., commissioners appear headed to hold Ameritech's feet to the fire. Chicago-based Ameritech won't get carte blanche to merge without agreeing to measures...

  Tags: Ameritech, Baby Bell, FINANCE, Investment, merger, SBC Communications Inc.

• Akron, Ohio, Business Switches to Baby Bell Rival for Local Phone Service.

  - 1999-03-09

  Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 9 -- Is there life after ditching a Baby Bell? Well, Akron's Julie Miller is about to find out -- well, her business will at least. On Friday, Miller Examining Service Inc., an 18-year-old real estate...

  Tags: Ameritech, Baby Bell, Kingston Technology Corp., network, NETWORKING, phone, TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• Baby Bells dwindle as mergers continue

  - 1998-06-09

  When SHC Communications and Ameritech Corp. announced a proposed $62 billion merger last month, it became the third such announcement by a Baby Hell in two years. It also begged the question: Who's next? When AT&T broke up in 1983, seven Baby Bells were spun off. Today, as a result...

  Tags: acquisition, Ameritech, Baby Bell, BellSouth Corp., FINANCE, Investment, merger, NETWORKING, telecommunications, Telephony

• Baby Bells dwindle as mergers continue

  - 1998-06-09

  When SHC Communications and Ameritech Corp. announced a proposed $62 billion merger last month, it became the third such announcement by a Baby Hell in two years. It also begged the question: Who's next? When AT&T broke up in 1983, seven Baby Bells were spun off. Today, as a result...

  Tags: acquisition, Ameritech, Baby Bell, BellSouth Corp., FINANCE, Investment, merger, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony

• AT&T's Breakup There were seven after AT&T's breakup but the SBC-Ameritech mega-merger might change that

  - 1998-05-25

  SBC has been the most aggressive aggregator among the Baby Bells. Since Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which paved the way for such mega-mergers as British Telecom-MCI Communications (later the MCI-WorldCom deal, still pending) and AT&T-Teleport Communications Group also pending, SBC went out and last year bought its...

  Tags: Ameritech, AT&T Corp., Baby Bell, FINANCE, Investment, MCI Inc., merger, NETWORKING, SBC Communications Inc., TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony

• Business World

  - 1998-05-15

  Overseas with the phone WASHINGTON AP -- Federal regulators took the first step Thursday to make it easier for Americans with mobile satellite phones to take them into other countries and vice versa. The Federal Communications Commission proposed streamlined procedures that would let a U.S. company obtain...

  Tags: agreement, Ameritech, Associated Press, Baby Bell, FCC, Government, NETWORKING, phone, Qwest Communications Inc., Ritz-Carlton, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony