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Cue the violins for the telecom gang

by Mathew on March 6, 2006 · View Comments

Boy, it seems like only yesterday, doesn’t it? The day that U.S. regulators busted up AT&T, I mean, and created the seven regional Bell operating companies or RBOCs, also known as the “Baby Bells” — including Southwestern Bell, Nynex, USWest and BellSouth. And how many big telephone companies are there now? Well, there are four: [...]

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SBC to Internet: We own you

by Mathew on October 31, 2005 · View Comments

Ed Whitacre, CEO of SBC Telecommunications, tells Businessweek magazine that as far as he’s concerned, telecoms and cable companies get to control the Internet: “Q. How concerned are you about Internet upstarts like Google, MSN, Vonage, and others? A. How do you think they’re going to get to customers? Through a broadband pipe. Cable companies [...]

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