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• AS TELIGENT EXITS, CLIENTS HIT SPEED DIAL; Unplugged phone firm leaves customers scrambling.

  - 2001-12-10

  Teligent Inc., a Virginia-based phone company in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, plans to shut down its local phone and Internet service in Chicago on Friday, a move that has sent customers scrambling to find service and is proving to be a windfall for local Teligent Inc.,...

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• Ameritech Settles Service Complaint.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

  - 2000-12-20

  Dec. 21--The state's investigation into severe repair and installation problems with Ameritech ended Wednesday when regulators approved a plan that could cost the phone company as much as $32 million in credits to customers. Dec. 21--The state's investigation into severe repair and installation...

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• Ameritech Objects To Michigan Regulators' Investigation.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

  - 2000-10-27

  Oct. 28--Ameritech, under fire for long delays in repairs and new installations, wants to stop state regulators from pursuing a case the phone giant says will single it out for tougher phone service rules. Oct. 28--Ameritech, under fire for long delays in repairs and new...

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• Indiana, Other States Give Ameritech 30 Days to Fix Phone Service Problems.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

  - 2000-10-02

  Sep. 30--CHICAGO--Five Midwestern states will give Ameritech no longer than 30 days to redraw its plans for fixing service problems that have left some customers of the region's largest phone company without service for months at a time. Sep. 30--CHICAGO--Five Midwestern states will give...

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• ###PAULA LYON.

  - 1999-04-12

  Ameritech sells cell phone biz To meet federal antitrust requirements for its pending takeover by SBC Communications Inc., Chicago phone company Ameritech Corp. will sell its Chicago cellular phone business to Texas-based GTE Corp. for $3.27 billi Ameritech sells cell phone biz ...

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• Ameritech to Join Southwestern Bell's Missouri Territory.(Originated from The Kansas City Star, Mo.)

  - 1997-11-12

  Nov. 12--Few phone companies have much interest in offering competitive local service to residential customers in Missouri. It's too expensive to build a network. And there are bigger, more lucrative markets to enter. Nov. 12--Few phone companies have much interest in...

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• Indiana Regulators Investigate Ameritech's Policies, Effects on Competition.(Originated from The Indianapolis Star and News)

  - 1997-01-29

  Jan. 29--State officials who investigated a controversial decision by Ameritech Corp. to roughly double the rates paid by some business customers are recommending that regulators halt the phone company's bid. Jan. 29--State officials who investigated a controversial decision by Ameritech...

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• Operators say telcos overstate VDT earnings. (video dial tone)

  - 1994-06-06

  Cable operators charge that new details released by two telephone companies planning video dial tone service show the services will lose money and may be improperly controlled by the phone companies. Ameritech Corp. and U S West Inc. are the first Cable operators...

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• Ameritech Picks Minneapolis Agency to Run Ad Campaign. (Originated from Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn.)

  - 1993-10-26

  Oct. 27--An $11 billion, Chicago-based phone company has reached out and touched Fallon McElligott, Minneapolis, to be its corporate ad agency. Oct. 27--An $11 billion, Chicago-based phone company has reached out and touched Fallon McElligott, Minneapolis, to be its corporate ad agency.

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