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Baby Bell collaboration helps home fibre

Three telecoms companies in the US have ignored their rivalries in order to provide fibre optic connections and new services Read more

30 May, 2003 by Ben Charny

VoIP enters the ascendancy

The sale of telecoms giant AT&T for a paltry $16bn demonstrates that VoIP is a market force to be reckoned with and that it has already had a major impact on business Read more

3 February, 2005 by Jim Hu and Marguerite Reardon

BellSouth: it's a Baby Bell, but it's in big trouble

That'll cheer the markets up Read more

23 July, 2002 by Graham Hayday

IDF Day Zero: Computers that feel - and squeeze the cheese

...without making contact - then closes firmly on a red string bag of Baby Bell miniature cheeses. Perhaps I'm a bit sensitive to scrotal subtext... Read more

1 April, 2008

The battles of community broadband

...of $30. Not surprisingly, Verizon has fought fiercely against the plan. The Baby Bell — the name given to any of the group of firms created... Read more

9 May, 2005 by Jim Hu and Marguerite Reardon

Philadelphia pushes on with Wi-Fi plan

...speedy fibre-optic lines into homes and businesses. Not surprisingly, the local Baby Bell phone companies have spoken out against these plans. Verizon Communications supported... Read more

8 April, 2005 by Jim Hu and Marguerite Reardon

Skype getting nearer the big time

...plans of the phone companies, which rely on owning the network. The "Baby Bell" local phone providers, for one, are building out new fibre and... Read more

18 March, 2005 by Evan Hansen

Intel does WiMax deal with Chinese firm

...WiMax is considered a potentially disruptive force against cable companies and the Baby Bell phone giants, the dominant providers of broadband in the United States... Read more

13 January, 2005 by Jim Hu

ISP forced to take action on viruses

...bulk emailers. The problem has prompted broadband ISPs, such as cable and Baby Bell phone companies, to step up network scanning and enforcement of security... Read more

18 March, 2004 by Jim Hu

US broadband population soars

...up the remaining 61 percent. Cable companies and DSL providers, mainly the Baby Bell phone companies, are competing in a market share battle for the... Read more

13 November, 2003 by Jim Hu

US telecoms regulators reveal contentious vision

...Telecommunications Services, a trade group that represents rivals to the big former Baby Bell companies, said the commission was making a mistake by giving the... Read more

22 August, 2003 by Ben Charny and John Borland

US Baby Bells rattle ISPs

...a cash crunch, American Internet service providers are worried that the US Baby Bell local phone companies are winding up for a knockout punch. At... Read more

16 May, 2001 by John Borland

Cisco chief to cable: Move it or lose it

...advanced services, or risk losing out to larger competitors such as the Baby Bell local phone companies. "If it happens fast, cable can win," Chambers... Read more

1 December, 2000 by Corey Grice

The Day Ahead: Broadwing flies under the radar

Broadwing's fibre optics - going in stealthy but likely to make an impact when telecoms recover Read more

8 November, 2000 by Larry Dignan

Six questions your ISP doesn't want you to ask

...it support the programs you use? In the Seattle area, for example, Baby Bell Qwest is also an ISP. But they won't support Microsoft... Read more

23 August, 2000 by Jesse Berst

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