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• Real Estate Review: Developers eye city sites for telco firms.

  - 2000-05-08

  Ameritech's central switching station just south of the Loop is proving to be a magnet for office developers seeking space for telecommunications companies. Developers appear to be interested in constructing a building of 300,000 square feet or mo Ameritech's central switching station just...

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• Chicago Gives Telco Nod for South Side

  - 1998-08-03

  Ameritech New Media has broken into its biggest market yet, as the Chicago City Council voted to give the telco a 15year cable franchise for the far South Side of the city. Meanwhile, the city's negotiations with ANM have delayed refranchising ta ...

  Tags: Ameritech, cable, franchise, telecommunications company

• Small Texas telco wins SW Bell contract. (Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.)

  - 1996-09-09

  A small Texas telephone outfit will drop a regulatory complaint against Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. in exchange for a resale contract containing the largest wholesale discount rate ever awarded by the Baby Bell. U.S. Telco Inc. withdrew its g A small Texas...

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• Adelphia, Time Warner seek deregulation. (Adelphia Communications Corp.; Time Warner Cable)

  - 1996-06-03

  Washington -- Cable operators facing telco competition are picking up the pace in their efforts to win deregulation from the Federal Communications Commission. Last week, Adelphia Communications Corp., became the second cable operator since Washington --...

  Tags: Adelphia Communications Corp., Ameritech, cable, cable company, cable industry, deregulation, FCC, telecommunications company, Time Warner Cable Inc., Time Warner Inc.

• Ameritech's Swiss cheese. (Ameritech New Media Enterprises Inc.)

  - 1996-04-01

  I smell a rat, and it's gnawing around Ameritech Corp.'s Swiss-cheese-like announcement on how it now has to delay building cable systems in five Chicago suburbs because "today's laws favor cable monopolies." As far as disingenuous pres I smell a rat, and...

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• Ameritech ditches Milwaukee, gains in Ill. (Ameritech Corp.)

  - 1996-02-12

  Like many of its telco brethren, Ameritech Corp. is revising its cable roll-out schedule and has removed Milwaukee from its to-do list, at least for now. A spokesman for the telco said the company has a "fixed budget" for 1996 and has d...

  Tags: Ameritech, cable, company, telecommunications company

• Loophole could snag some Midwest operators. (telecommunications reform legislation; cable TV operators)

  - 1995-10-16

  WASHINGTON - Passage of telecommunications reform legislation could get off to a messy start for many cable operators, particularly those in Ameritech Corp.'s five-state Midwest region. Although upper-tier deregulation could be just weeks away for WASHINGTON - Passage of telecommunications reform legislation could...

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• Ohio cable ops charge Ameritech with cheating. (cable TV operators)

  - 1995-10-09

  WASHINGTON - Ohio cable operators believe that Ameritech Corp. is breaking the rules again. The Ohio Cable Telecommunications Association charged that the Baby Bell is flouting Federal Communications Commission rules, and it wants the agency to i WASHINGTON - Ohio cable operators...

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• FCC fines Ameritech, makes 214s easier. (Ameritech Corp.)

  - 1995-08-21

  The government slapped Ameritech Corp. last week for building a cable system without a permit, but it also made getting those permits easier. A few days later, on Aug. 17, Glendale Heights, Ill., a town of 29,000 located 30 miles west of Chicago, ...

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• Ameritech pushes hard into cable.

  - 1995-08-21

  While other Disney partners are cautious, Ameritech works on securing cable franchises Ameritech is setting itself apart from the other telephone companies with an aggressive strategy to become an immediate competitor to cable. Although Amerit While other Disney partners...

  Tags: Ameritech, cable, Disney Corp., telecommunications company