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• 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

• ADVISORY/Experts Available To Discuss New Cellular Limits

  - 2001-11-09

  Business Editors ADVISORY... --BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 9, 2001TOPIC: A MSNBC story reports that on Thursday the Federal Communications Commission voted to phase out limits on how much of the airwaves mobile telephone companies can hold in a single market. The spectrum cap, put in place in 1994 to encourage...

  Tags: Ameritech, Business Wire, Dr., NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS

• Ameritech makes a judgment call for Michigan

  - 2000-06-06

  Alexander, Ericka Michigan Chronicle 06-06-2000 Ameritech makes a judgment call for Michigan Seven months after SBC Communications Inc. completed one of the biggest mergers in history, Michigan operations of the largest local phone company in the country remain solidly connected...

  Tags: Ameritech, conglomerate, Cooper, Detroit, DSL, FINANCE, INTERNET, Investment, Michigan, NETWORKING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• Letters.(News)(Letter to the Editor)

  - 2000-02-19

  Commerce, politics affect consumers Both ATM surcharges and out-of-network fees have continued to climb since February 1999 and have become more widespread as well. Phone charges add up Have you noticed on your Ameritech monthly telephone statement that since...

  Tags: Ameritech, ATM, FCC, Government, NETWORKING, phone, surcharge

• NOTEBOOK

  - 1999-11-08

  Larry Dolan, brother of Cablevision Systems owner Charles Dolan, will be next owner of Cleveland Indians if he receives approval of Major League Baseball. Larry Dolan agreed to pay about $320 million for team in cash from him and from family trusts. Dolan, attorney in Chardon, O., said "I...

  Tags: Ameritech, Cable, Cablevision Systems Corp., FCC, Iridium, network, NETWORKING, notebook, revenue, satellite, TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• HARRIS: Harris team pursues $1.9 billion contract fo for FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure upgrade.

  - 1999-09-28

  M2 PRESSWIRE-28 September 1999-HARRIS: Harris team pursues $1.9 billion contract for FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure FTI upgrade C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:270999 San Diego, CA, Harris Booth #1219 -- Harris Corporation announced today the formation of a partnership of leading telecommunications ...

  Tags: Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, FAA, Harris Corp., NETWORKING, SBC Communications Inc., Sprint Communications, team, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telephony, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS

• Fcc Gets Cable Blame

  - 1999-08-16

  Not only is cable industry retaining its monopoly in marketplace, it's being aided by do-nothing FCC, many commenters said in video competition rulemaking. Competitors ranging from overbuilders to DBS operators argued that Commission has failed to act on loopholes in program access rules and neglected to clarify multiple dwelling unit...

  Tags: Ameritech, Cable, commission, FCC, Government, NETWORKING, programming, TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• 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

• Fcc Sets Program Access Remedies

  - 1998-08-10

  FCC tightened rules on enforcing cable program access complaints Aug. 6, making changes that Comr. Ness said demonstrate "that we're serious about program access." It set timetable for complaint resolution, proclaimed intention to start levying fines against violators and affirmed its authority to impose damages under certain circumstances. Chmn. Kennard...

  Tags: agency, Ameritech, Cable, commission, FCC, Government, NETWORKING, programming, SALES, TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• Cable Competition Faces Hurdles

  - 1998-08-10

  Video competition is increasing but still faces major hurdles, competitive companies told FCC in filings for Commission's annual report to Congress. Unsurprisingly, they were less sanguine about competition's future if agency stands pat and lets rate regulation expire than was NCTA. Problems are "largely familiar," in words of Ameritech New...

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