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		<title><![CDATA[Baby Bells get legal broadband victory.(TOP NEWS)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6561/is_200608/ai_n25941216]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Baby Bells won a victory on August 15 when a US appeals court  said they could deny broadband access on most of their modern  fiber-optic lines to DSL rivals.    The 1996 Telecommunications Act required existing carriers to give  rivals access to their equipment...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fractured phone system consolidating once again]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmusa/is_200605/ai_n16376319]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[AT&T's relationship with the federal government has been a century in the making. The company was founded in 1885 and over the next century became the nation's de facto phone monopoly. At its peak in the early 1980s, it employed 1 million people.  In 1984, the Bell Telephone System...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hitting the merger pause button: AT&T and MCI were the big ones to watch in the long-distance industry, and now they've been gobbled up by Baby Bells. Are there lessons to be learned for wireless?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb1401/is_200511/ai_n18461580]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Wireless carriers could glean a lesson or two from  last month's FCC approved of the SBC Communications/AT&T and  Verizon Communications/MCI mergers, which marked an end to the two  toughest long-distance competitors, analysts say.      The wireless children of SBC and Verizon...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Coming soon: triple play: the telecoms and cable providers are storming into town promising an exciting new world of bundled voice, internet access, and video services. But can they deliver?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6684/is_200510/ai_n26483255]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want to hear some plain talk about the frenzied competition  between the Baby Bells and the cable providers to market bundled  services, seek out Randy Luther, vice president of construction  technology for Centex Homes in Dallas.    When Luther talked with Builder, he...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[FCC Liberates DSL in Parity Bid (Multichannel News)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baby Bells Score Win With Martin Bid for 'Level' Field      Washington-- The Baby Bells won a big victory at the Federal Communications Commission Friday, as the agency voted to deregulate their high-speed data services in an effort to create regulatory parity with market-leading cable companies....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Healthy network effects; Telecoms mergers.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5037/is_200505/ai_n18256328]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[America's telecoms sector is consolidating, but that is good,  not bad, for competition    IT LOOKS suspiciously like a return to the past. In 1984 a federal  judge ordered the break-up of AT&T, America's telephone  monopoly, on antitrust grounds to inject some sorely needed competition...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Baby Bell or giant Behemoth? Telecom debate begins]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regulatory roulette is now underway, with federal lawmakers holding initial committee hearings about telecom reform, a new FCC commissioner in place and the "light regulatory touch" embraced by Michael Powell, the former chairman, likely to dominate the landscape.  Rewriting the 1996 Telecom Act is likely to be a long...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SBC, a Baby Bell, swallows its parent in deal for AT&T]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SBC Communications on Sunday night was close to concluding a $16 billion deal for its former parent, AT&T, that would lead to the virtual disappearance of one of America's best known corporate icons and set off what promises to be a new round of competition between the Baby Bells, executives...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Child Is the Father to Mom, The]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will former telecom heavyweight AT&T be gobbled up by a Baby Bell? Reports quoting unnamed executives say that San Antonio, Texas-based SBC Communications may acquire its Bedminster-based progenitor for $15 billion. AT&T spokesman Jim Byrnes says he "cannot comment on what is considered to be a rumor." SBC was spun...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[End of an icon? SBC reported in talks to buy AT&T]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK AFP &#8212; In what could spell the end of an American corporate icon, SBC Communications was reported to be in talks to buy AT&T Corp.  Such an acquisition would close the books on one of the greatest corporate empires ever built, the company once known as "Ma...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cable Has to Like &#8216;Brand X&#8217; Case Chances (Multichannel News)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[9th Circuit's Liberal Reputation, Track Record on Appeal Seen  as Positives in Industry's Modem-Reg Fight      Washington -- The odds favor cable in the Supreme Court.      The high court has agreed to hear a case that could decide whether cable...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Seidenberg, Ivan G. 1946&#x2013;]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ivan G. Seidenberg 1946&#x2013; Chairman and chief executive officer, Verizon Nationality: American.Born: December 10, 1946, in New York City, New York.Education: City University of New York, BA, 1972; Pace University, MBA, 1980.Family: Son of Howard owner of an electrical supply shop and Kitty Zaretsky Seidenberg; married Phyllis A. Maisel; children:...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Roberts: cable, baby bells share concerns.(Through The Wire)(Brian Roberts spoke about regulations of cable television broadcasting industry and Telecommunications industry)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Cable operators and the Baby Bells are warriors in  the marketplace, but they share some worries on Capitol Hill.       In a speech last week in Las Vegas, Comcast Corp. chairman and CEO  Brian Roberts told a phone industry group that...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court lets lower court rulings stand on scrapping phone line rentals.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter J. Howe, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business  News    Oct. 13--AT&T Corp., MCI Inc., and a number of smaller  telephone  companies were rebuffed by the US Supreme Court yesterday in  their quest to save cut-rate deals to rent Bell System phone...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Study foresees spike in South Carolina telecommunications costs.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kyle Stock, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C. Knight  Ridder/Tribune Business News    Jul. 1--Small and midsized businesses in South Carolina may see   telecommunications costs rise an average of 25 percent as a result of a  recent  federal court ruling on telecommunications...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Phone Competition, Rules at Heart of Debate.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Vikas Bajaj, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune  Business News    Jun. 11--In the last eight years, 19 million consumers and small   businesses switched their local-phone company and millions others signed  up  for discount calling plans from their existing Baby Bell provider....]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bush Administration Won't Appeal Telecommunications Rules.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Vikas Bajaj, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune  Business News    Jun. 10--In a big victory for the nation's four local-phone  giants, the  Bush administration said Wednesday that it won't ask  the Supreme Court to  restore requirements that the companies rent their...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Playing For Time]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5292/is_200405/ai_n24280225]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[AT&T wants a federal court to delay a decision that could make the company's plans to offer widespread local telephone service hard to realize. The decision eliminates the requirement that Baby Bells lease parts of their networks to long-distance carriers at reduced rates. Local telephone carriers including Verizon and BellSouth...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Deregulation Obsession]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5718/is_200405/ai_n23754920]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Past deregulation has made a mess of the telecommunications industry. What does the Wall Street Journal think further deregulation will accomplish?The Wall Street journal's editors got their way. On March 2, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals voted to uphold Powell's proposal (voted down by the FCC last year 3-2)...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AT&T Offers to Deal with Phone Giants on Rates.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David DeKok, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. Knight  Ridder/Tribune Business News    Apr. 30--AT&T Thursday said it would agree to an increase in  some of the  wholesale rates charged by Verizon Communications and the  other Baby Bell  telephone companies as long as it...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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