Business Editors BALA CYNWYD, Pa.--BUSINESS WIRE--April 10, 2003 Pegasus Also Announces New Affiliation Agreements With FOX Broadcasting Company Pegasus Communications Corporation (NASDAQ:PGTV) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell WDBD-TV and WXMS-LP (Jackson, MS) to Jackson Television, LLC for $13.4 million in...
The Florida Public Service Commission is urging the Federal Communications Commission and Congress to not limit the unbundled network element UNE process until the competitive market matures. The Florida commission said states are best positioned to determine which UNEs, if any, should be deleted or added. "A one-size-fits-all approach may...
By Virgil Larson, Omaha World-Herald, Neb. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 9--You forgot the cell phone, so you pull into a gas station to use a pay phone to call home. Oops. No change. So you make a collect call. ...
State regulators have set Nov. 2 for the public hearing in Round 2 of Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.'s battle for the right to sell long-distance in Arkansas. Company officials are hoping to conclude the complex process by early 2000. The San Antonio-based telephone company filed for long-distance authority with...
May 18--In what may be a national first, Georgia regulators have rejected --- at least for now --- imposition of a new area code for metro Atlanta. Turning back the suggestion of those who administer the continent's phone numbers, the PSC argued that all...
Bell Atlantic [BEL] scored a clean win yesterday, when New York PSC Chairman Maureen Helmer advised the FCC that the carrier had met its obligations to enter the long-distance market. In a 177-page report, Helmer said the carrier has met the 14-point Section 271 checklist. "Postponement of long-distance...
Bell Atlantic [BEL], perceived even by its competitors as having the best shot at long distance of any RBOC, will probably file its New York Section 271 application with the FCC today. The carrier is certainly expected to do so this week. The PSC is committed to recommending...
As predicted here yesterday, Bell Atlantic [BEL] today filed its Section 271 application for New York long distance with the FCC. Slamming critic AT&T [T] as "world-class serial whiners" and brandishing the strongest competition figures to date for an ILEC, Bell Atlantic CEO Ivan Seidenberg and President James Cullen...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 7 -- Joe Garcia is mad as hell and he's not going to take it anymore. That's why the Florida Public Service Commission, of which Garcia is the chairman, has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to...
The proposed merger of Bell Atlantic [BEL] and GTE [GTE] won approval yesterday from the New York Public Service Commission PSC. New York has one of the tougher PSCs, but the states aren't the main hurdle for the merger. The FCC still must rule, and its main sticking...
Nearly two months after the scheduled dawn of the 646 area code for all new telephone numbers in Manhattan, the plan remains on hold. State and federal officials agree the new code is essential. What they have yet to agree on is how much it need complicate...
Internet users can see the best streaming video available, as some of the nation's leading public officials discuss telecommunications issues ranging from fixed wireless, to public-private partnerships, to deployment to rural and multicultural communities. Representatives from major communications companies, including AT&T, Nortel, MCI, Bell South, the Florida Internet Technology Task...
A flurry of telecom news in Georgia last week culminated in MCI Communications Corp. announcing that it had begun offering local phone service to businesses in metro Atlanta. At the same time, the Washington, D.C.-based long-distance carrier also A flurry of telecom...
Federal regulators will decide whether Colorado's largest electrical utility can slap cable operators with a $250-per-pole penalty for unauthorized pole attachments. In a setback for Public Service Co. of Colorado, the Federal Communications Comm Federal regulators will decide whether Colorado's largest ...
LANSING - Voting has begun on the creation of a global telecommunications giant. Shareholders of Chicago-based Ameritech Corp., by phone, mail and Internet, are choosing whether or not Ameritech should merge with Texas-based SBC Communications Inc LANSING - Voting has begun on the...
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