Local phone pricing at issue in Supreme Court case

AP Online;  October 13, 1998 ;     662 words ......throughout the country'' in the $110 billion local phone business, Solicitor General Seth Waxman...government in hopes of getting into the local phone business. But lawyers for state regulators...companies that long have had a monopoly on local phone service said the federal law ...

Supreme Court steps into battle over local phone market

AP Online;  October 13, 1998 ;     503 words ......to let other companies compete against local phone companies that have long had a virtual...government lawyers say. The 1996 law allowing local phone competition directed federal regulators...markets,'' they said. But lawyers for local phone companies said in court briefs that ...

FCC MANDATE ON LOCAL PHONE SERVICE UPHELD.(Business)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  August 11, 1998 ;     151 words ......helping companies provide competing local phone services was upheld yesterday by a federal...efforts to break open the $110 billion local phone business to competition. The U.S. Court...upheld an FCC decision requiring major local phone companies to lease out to rivals certain...

AT T Moves Forward on Stretegy to Get into Local Phone Business

The Journal Record;  May 4, 1995 ;     445 words ......filed applications to provide local phone service on Wednesday with telecommunications...among the Justice Department, local phone company Ameritech and AT T last...paved the way for AT T to provide local phone service in Chicago and Grand...

Ringing Out the Last Monopoly?; Legislation Aside, Local Phone Service...

The Washington Post;  July 25, 1995 ;     700+ words ......dropping Bell Atlantic Corp. as your local phone company and choosing from among a handful...most everybody is stuck with just one local phone company. It is one of the few surviving...long- distance carriers, alternate local phone companies -- could provide that local...

FCC offers proposals aimed at helping local phone competition

AP Online;  April 17, 1998 ;     290 words ......Online 04-17-1998 WASHINGTON (AP) _ Local phone companies would be encouraged to track...block to opening the $110 billion local phone industry. Long distance and cable companies who offer local phone service must use the computer systems...

Officials happy with MCI's entrance in local phone service

The Journal Record;  April 17, 2002 ;     422 words ......the entrance of MCI into Oklahoma's local phone service market is a sign competition...regulation rules opening Southwestern Bell's local phone service to competition," said Commission...large-scale, credible threat to the local phone monopolies' lock on the consumer calling...

MCI enters Oklahoma's local phone service market

THE JOURNAL RECORD;  April 17, 2002 ;     421 words ......the entrance of MCI into Oklahoma's local phone service market is a sign competition...regulation rules opening Southwestern Bell's local phone service to competition," said Commission...large-scale, credible threat to the local phone monopolies' lock on the consumer calling...

Local phone companies design guidelines to combat cramming

AP Online;  July 22, 1998 ;     352 words ......Online 07-22-1998 WASHINGTON (AP) _ Local phone companies, at the behest of the nation...crammed'' would be able to get the local phone company to take the unauthorized charge...bill and would not have to pay. Often, local phone companies, which bill their customers...

Ameritech no longer the only player for local phone service....

Crain's Cleveland Business;  January 30, 1995 ;     476 words ...Local phone service is quickly becoming the next...company, are in the process of launching local phone service to compete with Ameritech Corp...someday a similar battle may be waged for local phone customers. MFS is constructing a fiber...

LOCAL PHONE SERVICE OPEN TO COMPETITION.(BUSINESS)

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  August 2, 1996 ;     667 words ......approved rules opening the $100 billion local phone market to long-distance and cable TV...see multiple choices for residential local phone service by the end of the year. But...process of allowing new rivals into the local phone business, now dominated by the nation...

South Carolina Residential Phone Customers Wait for Local Phone Choices.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  March 4, 1999 ;     554 words ......designed to give people a choice of local phone companies, residential customers in...percent off what BellSouth is charging for local phone service. BellSouth is South Carolina's largest local phone company with more than 1.2 million lines...

Pennsylvania Consumer Advocates Worry about Local Phone Service...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  March 23, 1999 ;     700+ words ......over how to deregulate the Pennsylvania local phone business, consumer advocates have worried...to entice more competitors into the local phone industry. But an analysis of two settlement...all negotiations to deregulate the local phone industry in Pennsylvania had been off-limi...

Study: Local phone monopolies ripping off small business

Northeast Pennsylvania Business Journal;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...A new study on the effects of local phone competition and the Telecommunications...a lot of foot-dragging," in terms of local phone companies opening their markets to competition...on long-distance calling goes to the local phone companies for the use of their networks...

Georgia PSC Takes Important Step Toward Local Phone Choice.

PR Newswire;  May 18, 1999 ;     372 words ......Systems Will Ensure Reliable, Competitive Local Phone Alternatives ATLANTA, May 18 /PRNewswire...BellSouth as customers switch from one local phone carrier to the next. The Telecommunications...step toward delivering a choice for local phone service in Georgia once and for all...