Michigan Chronicle 09-27-2005 SBC Communications, Inc. [NYSE: SBC] recently announced that the SBC Foundation, its charitable giving arm, will provide a dollar-for-dollar match of contributions -- up to a total corporate contribution of $1 million -- by regular full-time employees and eligible retirees...
By Suzanne King, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 21--TRANSFER TIMES UNDER REVIEW: It's been nearly a year since wireless phone companies were required to let customers transfer phone numbers between carriers. But the highly technical rules about...
Cingular Wireless' proposed purchase of AT&T Wireless might face more regulatory hurdles than expected because of fears it could dampen local phone, as well as wireless, competition, industry officials say. Most analysts still expect the $41 billion deal to be cleared by the Justice Department and Federal Communications Commission...
By Peter J. Howe, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 14 --A pair of Baby Bell telephone companies and a European cellphone giant appeared headed toward a bidding war last night for AT&T Wireless Services Inc., as the deadline arrived...
By Kris Hudson, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 11--Qwest, SBC Communications and other local phone companies must let customers move their home and business phone numbers to wireless service providers after Nov. 24, federal regulators ruled Monday. ...
By Vikas Bajaj, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 12--Customers itching to cut their telephone cords just got another reason to do so. The slow trickle of Americans ditching their land lines for wireless service should...
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN ANTONIO--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 10, 2003 Background: On Monday, November 10, 2003, the Federal Communications Commission FCC issued a press release discussing rules to allow customers to keep their numbers when transferring between their wireless and wireline telephone numbers in the largest 100 metropolitan areas in...
Local-telephone companies should be required to let customers move their home numbers to a mobile phone in the same area code, U.S. Federal Communications Commissioner Kathleen Abernathy said. "If there are no technical problems, and if this is something that a customer wants, then I'm willing to...
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN ANTONIO--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 21, 2003 SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE:SBC) today announced that it will webcast Chief Financial Officer Randall L. Stephenson's presentation at the Merrill Lynch Global Communications Investor Conference on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2003 at 8 a.m. EST. The webcast may be accessed...
Investment firm UBS Warburg lowered its 2002 earnings per share estimate for SBC Communications [SBC] to $2.25 from $2.31, citing continued weakness in the economy, pressure from unbundled network element platforms and softness expected in the company's wireless results. Earlier this week, SBC said it expected its full-year earnings to...
Without the assistance of the incumbent local exchange carriers, enhanced 911 stands little chance of becoming a reality. ILECs typically own and operate all the existing 911 systems and therefore provide the selective routers, automatic location information databases and trunks to carry 911 calls, as well...
Business Editors & Technology Writers WASHINGTON--BUSINESS WIRE--April 5, 2002 Background: SBC Communications Inc. will file comments today with the Federal Communications Commission in connection with the FCC's triennial review of its UNE unbundled network element Remand Order. SBC Communications (NYSE:SBC) will today urge the Federal Communications...
SAN ANTONIO -- SBC Communications Inc. (NYSE: SBC) today announced an agreement with the University of Arkansas to provide a Wireless Mesh Network solution from Nortel for an on-campus private wireless network.
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The Federal Communications Commission FCC, Washington DC, has approved the joint venture between the wireless operations of BellSouth Corp. and SBC Communications Inc. The as-yet-unnamed venture will become the second-largest wireless player in the United States after Verizon Wireless. It will serve some 18 million operators, covering the south and...
Sep. 30--The Federal Communications Commission blessed the marriage of the wireless units of SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. Friday, saying the union would increase competition. The combined company will be temporarily called Alloy LLC and have about 16 million subscribers, $9 billion in...
The U.S. Justice Department announced that it would require SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. to sell businesses in 16 markets to resolve antitrust concerns over the creation of the nation's second largest wireless carrier. The venture is expected to start operating by the year end.
BellSouth [BLS] and SBC Communications [SBC] already are doing what the Department of Justice today said the companies must do before linking their U.S. wireless networks, leaving only the FCC's approval to go before the companies can launch their joint venture. The Justice Department approved the venture with a...
M2 PRESSWIRE-28 September 1999-HARRIS: Harris team pursues $1.9 billion contract for FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure FTI upgrade C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:270999 San Diego, CA, Harris Booth #1219 -- Harris Corporation announced today the formation of a partnership of leading telecommunications ...
SBC Communications Inc. unveiled a bundled offering for business customers allowing them to integrate wireline and wireless services, including Research In Motion Ltd. BlackBerry service plans from wireless subsidiary Cingular Wireless L.L.C., trad SBC Communications Inc. unveiled a bundled offering for business customers...
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