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• Feds' telecom review complicates SBC request.(News)(SBC Ameritech Michigan is reviewed in light of 1996 telecommunications act)

  - 2002-11-18

  Byline: Amy Lane A Washington telecommunications review is complicating Michigan regulators' decision on whether to allow SBC Ameritech Michigan into long distance. The Federal Communications Commission, in its triennial review of the 1996 tele Byline: Amy Lane ...

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• So that's where the IPOs have gone!

  - 2002-10-14

  Nearly twice as many companies have gone public this year in Japan than in the United States. While low stock prices and economic uncertainty have deterred initial public offerings in the U.S., companies have continued to debut on the Japanese stock exchanges despite difficult economic times in that country. In...

  Tags: Ameritech, FCC, FINANCE, Government, Investment, IPO, merger, SBC Communications Inc.

• SBC Ameritech Michigan Plans To File For Long Distance With The FCC By The End Of 2002; Approval Means Lower Long Distance Prices, Increased Competition for Michigan

  - 2002-07-30

  Business Editors & Technology Writers

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• Phone Bills to Rise Again in Willoughby, Ohio, Area.

  - 2002-06-28

  By Dave Truman, The News-Herald, Willoughby, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 28--Local telephone bills will rise again beginning Tuesday. The Federal Communications Commission has issued a ruling that allows companies like Ameritech Ohio and Alltel to increase the monthly ...

  Tags: Alltel Corp., Ameritech, FCC, Government, phone

• SBC Ameritech Files Draft Long Distance Application With Public Service Commission Of Wisconsin; Filing Represents Next Step Toward Offering Long Distance Service

  - 2002-03-19

  Business Editors & High Tech Writers MILWAUKEE--BUSINESS WIRE--March 19, 2002 SBC Ameritech today filed with the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin PSCW a draft application, indicating that it intends to file with the Federal Communications Commission FCC to request authority to provide long distance service in the state....

  Tags: Ameritech, FCC, Government, SBC Communications Inc., Wisconsin

• Court Ruling Could Impact SBC's Bid for Piece of Illinois Long-Distance Market.

  - 2002-01-01

  By Jon Van, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 1--SBC Communications Inc. may face additional scrutiny in its effort to supply long-distance service in Illinois because of a recent court ruling that said Ameritech's parent company failed to adequately open its...

  Tags: Ameritech, FCC, Government, Illinois, SBC Communications Inc.

• SBC Ameritech Files Draft Long Distance Application With Illinois Commerce Commission; Filing Represents First Step Toward Offering Long Distance Service in Illinois

  - 2001-11-27

  Business Editors CHICAGO--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 27, 2001 SBC Ameritech has filed with the Illinois Commerce Commission ICC a draft application, indicating that it intends to file next year with the Federal Communications Commission FCC to provide long distance service in the state. "Illinois consumers just moved one step...

  Tags: Ameritech, FCC, Government, Illinois, NETWORKING, SBC Communications Inc., TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony

• FCC Grants SBC Extension Request

  - 2001-08-14

  The Federal Communications Commission granted on Friday SBC Communications' [SBC] request for an extension to file its independent auditor's report on the company's performance data. The company's deadline for reporting the audited material was moved from Sept. 4 to Nov. 12. As part of the FCC's...

  Tags: Ameritech, FCC, FINANCE, Government, Investment, performance

• FCC fines for SBC hit $23 million

  - 2001-04-10

  WASHINGTON AP -- The Federal Communications Commission has fined SBC Communications $23 million since December for not meeting terms of its 1999 purchase of Ameritech. SBC's problems have included not installing customers' service by a promised date and not quickly telling competitors when it switches customers to...

  Tags: Ameritech, FCC, Government, SBC Communications Inc.

• SBC: The ties that bind — The 'Best LEC' has moved quickly to acquire additional assets, leading to culture clashes and snarls with the FCC

  - 2000-05-15

  If practice makes perfect, then SBC Communications should have the acquisition thing down pat. SBC absorbed Pacific Telesis in April 1997, but it didn't stop there. In October 1998, shortly before its merger with Southern New England Telecommunications SNET, SBC surprised many by announcing plans to acquire Ameritech. ...

  Tags: Ameritech, asset, DSL, FCC, FINANCE, Investment, merger, SBC Communications Inc., TELECOMMUNICATIONS