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- AT&T Merger Analysis
- LARRY KUDLOW, CNBC ANCHOR: How will federal regulators react to this deal? And is AT&T gearing up to take on cable and Google and Hollywood and all the rest of it? We`ve got the panel of all panels tonight. Who better to talk...
- Research articles 2006-03-06
- Only decisive spectrum policies will save US from Ma Bell
- The concept of the competitive carrier is almost a dead one in the US now. While the wireline CLEC competitive local exchange carrier has struggled for years, and been dealt a body blow by recent FCC decisions, it seems on the surface that the wireless version is in a far...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- Only decisive spectrum policies will save US from a return to Ma Bell
- The concept of the competitive carrier is almost a dead one in the US now. While the wireline CLEC competitive local exchange carrier has struggled for years, and been dealt a body blow by recent FCC decisions, it seems on the surface that the wireless version is in a far...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- Ma Bell Wants To Split Baby Bell—Again
- By Rodney L. Pringle, rpringle@pbimedia.com At least both sides are familiar with the routine now. AT&T [T] and the Competitive Telecommunications Association filed a petition with the Tennessee Regulatory Authority last week seeking structural separation of BellSouth [BLS] into separate retail and wholesale operations. In March,...
- Research articles 2001-05-07
- Ma Bell Picking On Baby Bells — Again
- By Rodney L. Pringle, rpringle@pbimedia.com It's becoming as routine as brushing your teeth - AT&T's at it again, trying to rip apart incumbent carriers. AT&T [T], the Competitive Telecommunications Association, McLeodUSA [MCLD] and the Association of Communications Enterprises filed a joint petition with the Indiana...
- Research articles 2001-05-14
- Ma Bell Hires Baby Bell Exec To Nurse Struggling Unit
- By Rodney L. Pringle, rpringle@pbimedia.com AT&T [T] has turned to Betsy J. Bernard, a former Baby Bell executive, to head up its floundering consumer long-distance unit. Bernard, 45, had most recently headed Qwest Communications International's [Q] consumer and small business unit. She had also served as head...
- Research articles 2001-03-22
- SBC-Pacific Telesis Deal May Kick Off Merger Mania.(Originated from Tulsa World, Okla.)
- Apr. 7--Is Ma Bell, the communications monopoly that was broken up 12 years ago, coming back in another form? That's the question some observers are asking. They point to last week's merger of SBC Communications Inc. and Pacific Telesis Group, which marks the first time two...
- Research articles 1996-04-07
- Reins for Baby Bells: let Ma Bell's offspring roam free, but not to become baby-bullies. (editorial)
- IT IS six years since America's trustbusters broke up Ma Bell. The aim was to stop American Telephone and Telegraph AT&T) abusing a continent-wide monopoly in the supply of telephone lines. AT&T is no longer able to control the telecoms-equipment market and to keep price-cutting competitors...
- Research articles 1990-04-07
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- Prospects for the next "Ma Bell". (Nolle).
- Public communications is entering what will eventually be regarded as a critical period. Within the next few years, the comfortable "Ma Bell" image that has persisted despite a wave of regulatory changes will, finally, be replaced. It's t Public communications is entering what will...
- Research articles 2003-02-01
- Freeing Ma Bell. (electronic publishing)
- Freeing Ma Bell Freeing Ma Bell
- Research articles 1989-08-05
- Some analysts think Ma Bell needs a few grandchildren
- Fifteen years after a landmark antitrust action led Ma Bell to give birth to seven Baby Bells, some industry analysts think Ma needs some grandchildren.
- Research articles 1999-08-10
- Lucent spins off newest generation of Ma Bell
- NEW YORK AP -- Ma Bell is now a grandma. This past weekend, exactly four years after AT&T gave birth to Lucent Technologies with the spinoff of its communications equipment business, a third generation was born as Lucent officially spun off the part that makes office telephone systems, creating an...
- Research articles 2000-09-03
- Lucent spins off newest generation of Ma Bell
- NEW YORK AP -- Ma Bell is now a grandma. This past weekend, exactly four years after AT&T gave birth to Lucent Technologies with the spinoff of its communications equipment business, a third generation was born as Lucent officially spun off the part that makes office telephone systems, creating an...
- Research articles 2000-10-03
- Ma Bell Inches Back
- There was a hint of déjà vu about the Federal Communications Commission's unanimous approval of AT&T's $86 million buyout of BellSouth. The FCC, which finally gave AT&T its OK after the teleom giant offered up awholenewslateofconcessions, was giving another push to the process that is gradually reuniting tlie elements of...
- Research articles 2007-01-08
- Pacific Bell to Trim 10,000 Jobs Over Next Four Years. (Originated from San Jose Mercury News, Calif.)
- SAN JOSE, Calif.--Jan. 10--Pacific Bell said Friday it would cut 3,000 jobs this year and 7,000 more by the end of 1997, leaving the telephone company with barely half the number of employees who worked there after it broke away from Ma Bell a decade aSAN JOSE,...
- Research articles 1994-01-09
- Ma Bell's brood grows up - sweeping changes among Baby Bell telephone companies and their future prospects
- The forces of change unleashed by the Bell System's breakup 14 years ago continue to rage today. A sweeping telecommunications law enacted in 1996 was designed to promote competition among local and long-distance phone companies. As a result, many of the players hope to become one-stop sources for all the...
- Research articles 1998-02-01
- Can George Cope Fix Ma Bell?
- Mark McQueen Wellington Financial submits: If it were my C$52 billion, I’d want George Cope at the helm of BCE BCE, too. Unfortunately, Mr. Cope has quickly figured out that if he’s to fix Bell Canada during the first 100 days of his tenure as CEO, he’d better get...
- External links 2008-09-11
- Cry babies rattle their playpen. (regulation of regional Bell telephone companies)
- American telephones Cry babies rattle their playpen THE 1984 break-up of American Telephone & Telegraph followed a long tug-of-war between the company, known cosily as Ma Bell, and government lawyers intent on injecting more competition into America's monolithic telephone network. Another tug-of-war is...
- Research articles 1989-07-08
- AT&T Proposes to Acquire McCaw Cellular Communications in Mammoth Stock Swap. (Originated from San Jose Mercury News, Calif.)
- Aug. 17--Ma Bell is back. AT&T, the biggest survivor of the old Bell system, demonstrated Monday its determination to once again meet virtually all of the nation's telecommunications needs. Aug. 17--Ma Bell is back. AT&T, the biggest survivor of the old Bell system, demonstrated Monday its...
- Research articles 1993-08-17
- Some Argue Baby Bells Slow to Let Competitors Utilize Their Networks.
- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 1 -- Fifteen years after a landmark antitrust action led Ma Bell to give birth to seven Baby Bells, some industry analysts think Ma needs some grandchildren. As squabbles heat up in Massachusetts and New York over...
- Research articles 1999-08-02
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