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New Mexico The thousands of Navajo Nation residents who rely on the Internet to work, study and communicate across their 27,000-sq.-mi. reservation likely to be without Internet service starting April 7. A tribal audit last year reportedly revealed Utah-based provider OnSat Network Communications Inc. may have...
In Our Opinion: AT&T, MCI Verizon Continues To Harvest Customers
The following feature is part of a larger report just released by activist group TeleTruth. Telecom Policy Report welcomes your comments on this subject. Please send them to Debra Wayne at dwayne@accessintel.com. In 2001, AT&T and MCI had 62 percent of households using their long- distance service. What...
Justice near OK of AT& T-BellSouth deal with no restrictions
The Justice Department is expected to clear AT&T's $67 billion purchase of BellSouth as early as today without requiring any divestitures, say people with knowledge of the matter. Justice could still shift course and require some last-minute concessions, these people say. But the department typically acts on telecom mergers before...
In The United States, Recent Years Have Seen a Significant Degree of Consolidation amongst Telecommunications Operators Such As MCI Agreed To Be Acquired By Verizon Communications.
M2 PRESSWIRE-4 October 2006-Research and Markets: In The United States, Recent Years Have Seen a Significant Degree of Consolidation amongst Telecommunications Operators Such As MCI Agreed To Be Acquired By Verizon CommunicationsC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06102006 Dublin - Research and Markets...
Looking Back: The Telecom Year In Review
How 2005 Did And Didn't Shape Up Welcome to 2006. Right after New Year's Day is a traditional time for reflection, so Telecom Policy Report once again offers a glimpse at the past year's highlights (TPR, Dec. 22, 2004). The 2005 regulatory and legislative scene saw...
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?
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...
Hitting the Merger Pause Button (Wireless Week)
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? WASHINGTON-Wireless carriers could glean a lesson or two from last month's FCC...
Telcos need 'naked' DSL: FCC adds caveat to AT&T, MCI deals.(digital-subscriber-line, SBC Communications Inc.-AT&T Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc.-MCI Inc. merger deals)
Washington -- SBC Communications Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. are required to provide "naked" digital-subscriber-line service for two years under merger conditions adopted by the Federal Communications Commission Oct. 31. Washington -- SBC Communications Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. are required...
FCC OKs SBC/AT&T, and Verizon/MCI mergers
The Federal Communications Commission approved the mergers of SBC Communications Inc. with AT&T Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc. with MCI Inc. The Commission concluded that consumers will reap the rewards of the public-interest benefits that will flow from these mergers. These benefits include integration of complementary networks, which will...
Verizon's MCI acquisition approved by FCC
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-1 November 2005-Verizon's MCI acquisition approved by FCCC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com The proposed acquisition of MCI Inc (Nasdaq:MCIP) by communications company Verizon Communications Inc (NYSE:VZ) has been approved by the US Federal Communications Commission FCC. The acquisition, which has already been approved by the US Department of...
FCC allows SBC, Verizon mergers — with conditions
WASHINGTON -- Regulators agreed Monday to approve SBC Communications' takeover of AT&T and Verizon Communications' purchase of MCI -- deals that allow the nation's biggest phone companies to grow bigger -- but with conditions. By 4-0 votes, the Federal Communications Commission approved the multibillion-dollar mergers with conditions that...
FCC OKs SBC/AT&T, and Verizon/MCI mergers
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US FCC approves two huge telecom mergers
WASHINGTON AFP — The Federal Communications Commission approved SBC Communications' acquisition of AT and T Corp. and Verizon's purchase of MCI, increasing the size of the two largest US telecom groups. The FCC's four commissioners -- one seat is vacant -- voted just days after antitrust reviewers at the...
XO Commmunications Statement on FCC Conditions for SBC/AT&T and Verizon/MCI Mergers
RESTON, Va. -- XO Communications, Inc. (OTCBB:XOCM.OB) today stated it is pleased that the Federal Communications Commission placed conditions on the mergers of SBC/AT&T and Verizon/MCI aimed at maintaining competition in the wholesale market, and thanked the Commissioners and their staff for their efforts to ensure ongoing choice and price...
US Justice Dept. approves SBC-AT&T, Verizon-MCI mergers
WASHINGTON AFP — The US Justice Department approved the telecommunications industry mega-mergers of Verizon with MCI and SBC Communications with AT&T, subject to the divestiture of some operations by both groups. The approvals clear a major hurdle to the deals that create two telecom powerhouses in the United States....
Telecom mergers make progress
Two big mergers that will reshape the telecom industry appear set to clear major hurdles as early as this week. SBC Communications tentatively has agreed to a key concession to win antitrust approval for its purchase of AT&T, and Verizon has done the same for its merger with MCI,...
Qwest urges FCC to impose restrictions on merging firms
DENVER -- Qwest Communications officials pressed their case Wednesday for the government to impose restrictions on two telecommunications mergers, reiterating their contention the pending deals could hurt competition and raise prices. As proposed, the unions of SBC Communications Inc. and AT&T and Verizon Communications Inc. and MCI Inc....
FCC Rumored In 'Mega-Merger' Debate With Conditions In Play
The Federal Communications Commission reportedly is in the final stages of deliberating how to acceptably approve the proposed $16 billion SBC Communications/AT&T and the $8.5 billion Verizon Communications/MCI deals, with a heavy focus of debate among commissioners and staff on whether or to what extent conditions...
AT& T to live on after merger
NEW YORK -- SBC plans to dump its corporate moniker and adopt the fabled AT&T name once federal regulators bless the two companies' merger, people with direct knowledge of the matter say. Those people caution that it's possible SBC's plan could still change. The company might also choose to...
Yankee Group Research Proves AT&T and MCI to be the Bells' Largest Competitors in the Wholesale Market; XO Submits Analyst Data to FCC Showing that AT&T and MCI Together Control One-Fifth of Wholesale Metro Private Line Market
WASHINGTON -- A private report by The Yankee Group shows that AT&T and MCI together account for nearly 20 percent of the wholesale metro private line market, XO Communications charged in a filing with the Federal Communications Commission.
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