This time the telcos mean it. Years ago, phone company leaders promised to invade cable markets with the latest in pay-video technology. Some did, rolling out hybrid fiber coaxial and wireless networks here and there. But those efforts were tentative at best and ultimately collapsed. ...
The idea that ILECs would like local franchises for video to be replaced by federally authorized state-wide franchising began rolling around congressional halls and House hearings a short time ago, but the discussion surprisingly was on many more lips than anticipated at McCormick Place during Supercomm...
Texas could grant SBC Communications Inc. statewide authority to operate its "U-verse TV" Internet-protocol video service by early next month, now that it has filed for a franchise. The telephone company was the most vociferous backe Texas could grant...
In what could be a groundbreaking move, utility regulators in Connecticut are attempting to determine if they have the authority to regulate SBC Communications Inc.'s planned Internet-delivered video service. "No one else is doing this i In what...
Project Lightspeed, SBC Communications Inc.'s grand $5 billion buildout of fiber-to-the-node technology that will allow the telco to offer Internet-protocol television services, is a hybrid optical-fiber and copper network the scale of which will b Project Lightspeed, SBC Communications Inc.'s grand $5 billion ...
SBC Communications Inc. kicked some competitive sand into cable's face last week, detailing plans for its "Lightspeed" fiber-to-the-node project, which will deliver video to consumers in competition with satellite and cable operators. SBC Communications Inc. kicked some competitive sand into...
SAN ANTONIO -- SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE: SBC) today announced the appointment of Dan York to lead the company's video content strategy and acquisition for SBC's entertainment services. SBC companies are working to provide millions of customers a new choice in entertainment video.
Scientific-Atlanta Inc. has secured a $195 million contract to provide SBC Communications Inc. with an Internet-protocol video operations center, two national IP video "super hubs" and 41 IP video hubs for its video rollout. Set-top Scientific-Atlanta Inc. has...
WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators will take another 90 days to review a request from SBC Communications Inc. that could set the stage for large phone companies to offer video programming without complying with traditional cable regulations. SB WASHINGTON...
Struggling to preserve its eroding local telephony base, SBC Communications Inc. made a move to offer its own triple play of voice, video and data services, striking a deal with EchoStar Communications Corp, to provide satellite-delivered video to Struggling to preserve its eroding...
LAS VEGAS -- This Consumer Electronics Show might well be remembered as tire video coming out party for the big phone companies. From a main address by SBC Communications Inc. CEO Edward Whitacre, to Microsoft Corp.'s news that it was testing ...
Telco forays into video--and Verizon Communications Inc.'s fiber-to-the-premises buildout in particular--became a reoccurring side note during last week's two-day Goldman Sachs & Co. Communacopia media conference in New York. But Verizon' Telco forays into video--and Verizon Communications Inc.'s...
SAN ANTONIO -- SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE: SBC) today announced a new contract to provide voice and data services to the College of DuPage (C.O.D.), located just west of Chicago in Glen Ellyn, Ill. The College of DuPage enrolls more than 35,000 students each term with 46 pre-baccalaureate programs and...
Once again, consolidation has reared its head, this time in the telephony sector, when SBC Communications Inc., formerly Southwestern Bell, stunned a lot of people by announcing that it would acquire Pacific Telesis Group, another Baby Bell, for $17 billion. That...
SBC Communications Inc.'s three-year, $6 billion broadband-upgrade plan breaks new ground for telcos that use digital technology to deliver video and voice over copper phone lines. Confronting multiservice competitors head-on, SBC said it woul SBC Communications Inc.'s three-year, $6...
Pacific Telesis Group employees readying the company's new digital wireless television service in Los Angeles are worried that new parent SBC Communications Inc. will scrap the service before it really begins. SBC's official line is that no decis Pacific Telesis Group employees...
In the latest telco effort to build momentum against cable, SBC Communications will accelerate rollout of its digital subscriber line DSL service with a $6 billion investment over the next three years. Project Pronto, as SBC dubs it, will re ...
SBC Communications Inc. may share common interests with Pacific Telesis Group, the company that SBC agreed to buy last week for $16.7 billion. But video strategies don't appear to be among them. SBC Communications Inc. may share common interests with Pacific ...
Five years from now, consumers with SBC Communications Inc.'s Microsoft TV-powered pay-TV service may be able to program digital video recorders with a mobile phone, hold video conferences via the television or share photos and even home movies wit Five years from now, consumers...
SBC Communications Inc. produced record growth in digital subscriber line additions in the third quarter, while BellSouth Corp. posted solid numbers--both developments which will lend credence to a recent analyst report suggesting cable may want to SBC Communications Inc. produced record growth in digital...
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