TED "DUB" SNIDER JR. MARKETED HIS company, Connect Communications Corp. of Little Rock, as "a radically innovative telecom service provider." An FBI affidavit suggests that the company's business plan was so radically innovative that even some employees worried that it constituted a fraud against Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. ...
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. could launch long-distance service in Arkansas Monday, but the company has been mum on exactly when it will take advantage of a recent decision by the Federal Communications Commission. Federal regulators on Nov. 16 granted Southwestern Bell its long-sought request to offer long-distance telephone and...
By Jeffrey Tomich, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Little Rock Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 7--Despite the support of state regulators, Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. is taking longer than expected to seek federal permission to enter Arkansas' $175 million long-distance market. Spokesman...
By Suzanne King, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 7--Dave Scott has seen the ugly side of the telephone business. Over the last 15 months, the president and chief executive of Birch Telecom Inc. has been...
By Suzanne King, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 4--The staff of the Missouri Public Service Commission has recommended that state regulators reopen the case involving Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.'s application to sell long-distance service in the...
By Suzanne King, The Kansas City Star, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 4--The staff of the Missouri Public Service Commission has recommended that state regulators reopen the case involving Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.'s application to sell long-distance service in the...
By D.R. Stewart, Tulsa World, Okla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 6--Six weeks after federal regulators granted Southwestern Bell's application to offer long-distance telephone service in Oklahoma, the company is rolling out its long-distance offerings, beginning Wednesday, executives said. Among...
By Dan Piller, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 9--FORT WORTH, Texas--Consumers Union, the self-described consumer testing and protection organization, said Thursday that telephone deregulation has failed to provide more competition and lower rates for Texas consumers. ...
- KCC pushes back new area code --- State regulators modified their schedule for starting a new area code in southern Kansas, giving Southwestern Bell another month to prepare. Southwestern Bell asked the Kansas Corporation Commission to reconsider its schedule for the 620 area code. Under the original...
Brinkley Leads Company in Competitive Market CYNTHIA BRINKLEY didn't stay down on the farm, but the responsibility and political awareness she learned there led to her position as president of Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. in Arkansas. "I would say the hard work ethic is very instilled in our...
Now that Bell Atlantic [BEL] and Southwestern Bell [SBC] have broken into long distance in New York and Texas, respectively, a race is on among incumbent LECs. When all the ILECs were locked out of long distance, speed didn't matter. Now, a delay would put a...
WITH PERMISSION TO SELL LONG-distance in Texas expected at any moment, Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. is getting ready to ask for the same in Arkansas -- probably by mid-July. If Southwestern Bell, owned by San Antonio-based SBC Communications Inc., gets the nod from the Arkansas Public Service Commission and...
The U.S. Department of Justice yesterday gave a clear thumbs-up to Southwestern Bell's [SBC] application for entry into long distance in Texas -- the first time the DoJ has given an RBOC its blessing. The application now goes to the FCC, which has primary authority over applications. ...
Southwestern Bell Telephone filed updated affidavits and other documentation with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission on Friday in support of its effort to be allowed to offer long-distance service to its customers. "Oklahoma leaders favor a competitive marketplace, and Southwestern Bell's entry into the long-distance market is an extension...
We said (CT 5/22) that competitors would pull Southwestern Bell's [SBC] latest performance data in its Texas long-distance application apart with a fine-toothed comb. They've already started. The Association for Local Telecom Services yesterday called on the FCC to reject Southwestern Bell's Section 271 application, based on the...
We said (CT 5/22) that competitors would pull Southwestern Bell's [SBC] latest performance data in its Texas long-distance application apart with a fine-toothed comb. They've already started. The Association for Local Telecom Services yesterday called on the FCC to reject Southwestern Bell's Section 271 application, based on the...
The Texas PUC yesterday voted 3-0 to support Southwestern Bell's [SBC] long-distance application in another set of comments to the FCC. The FCC on April 7 ordered a new Section 271 application after denying a request by the RBOC for a delay. The PUC's move wasn't unexpected (it...
SBMS - which operates under the Cellular One name outside of the five-state region served by its local exchange carrier LEC affiliate Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. [SBC1] - hopes to offer "one-stop shopping" for landline and wireless services in areas such as Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and several markets...
The Texas PUC yesterday recommended that the FCC approve Southwestern Bell's Section 271 application. If the FCC does so, SBC will become the second incumbent carrier, after Bell Atlantic [BEL] in New York, to sell long distance. CLECs have a million lines in Texas, a fact that is...
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