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• Ameritech calls on Canadians.

  - 1999-03-29

  A day after Texas-based SBC Communications Inc. won conditional approval from the U.S. Department of Justice to buy Ameritech Corp., the Chicago-based Baby Bell said it will take a 20%, $3.4-billion stake in Montreal-based BCE Inc.'s Bell Canada subs A day after Texas-based SBC Communications Inc....

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• Justice Department Oks Sbc-Ameritech Merger

  - 1999-03-24

  The $60 billion merger of SBC Communications [SBC] and Ameritech [AIT] cleared the U.S. Department of Justice DoJ late yesterday, leaving the FCC and the state commissions in Illinois and Ohio as the only remaining hurdles. To gain DoJ approval, the companies agreed to sell overlapping wireless properties in Chicago...

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• Justice Department Approves SBC Communications, Ameritech Merger.

  - 1999-03-23

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• The Week in Review.(acquisition in the cable industry)

  - 1998-05-18

  Two mega-announcements came down in rapid-fire, staccato fashion last week. First, the very deep-pocketed SBC Communications continued apace on its shoppingspree, announcing that it would acquire Ameritech Corp. for a cool $62 billion. Right on t Two mega-announcements came down in rapid-fire,...

  Tags: cable, SBC Communications Inc., cable company, U.S. Department of Justice, Ameritech, acquisition, video

• AT T Moves Forward on Stretegy to Get into Local Phone Business

  - 1995-05-04

  WASHINGTON AP _ AT T is taking its first steps to get back into the local telephone business _ something it hasn't done in 11 years. The nation's largest long-distance company filed applications to provide local phone service on Wednesday with telecommunications regulators in...

  Tags: agreement, Ameritech, phone, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, U.S. Department of Justice

• Ameritech poised to offer long-line service. (Ameritech Corp.; long-distance telephone services)

  - 1995-04-10

  WASHINGTON - In a controversial agreement 18 months in the making, Ameritech Corp. is poised to become the first Baby Bell to offer wide-scale long-distance phone service. The agreement, unveiled last week by the Department of Justice, first need WASHINGTON - In...

  Tags: agreement, Ameritech, phone, telephone service, U.S. Department of Justice

• Ameritech seeks go-ahead for long-distance. (Ameritech Corp.; long-distance telephone services)

  - 1993-12-13

  Ameritech Corp. filed an application to the Department of Justice for a waiver to provide long-distance service. The action was expected. If the Justice Department recommends a grant of a waiver, the request will go before U.S. District Court Judg Ameritech Corp. filed...

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• Bars BOC 3d-party royalties

  - 1992-02-10

  wASHINGTON -- U.S. District Court Judge Harold Greene last week denied a Justice Department request to allow the Bell operating companies to profit from the sale of telecommunications equipment developed by third parties with RBOC financial assistance. Justice, supporting an original 1986 waiver request by Ameritech, sought a declaratory...

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