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US Baby Bells Rattle ISPs
News They also report the Bells are making slow progress in offering the network connections ISPs need to offer service to their customers. The bill would also remove regulation that limits what the Bells can charge for pieces of their network that the...
[May 16, 2001, 16:49]
Broadband And The City
News Jim Baller is no friend of the large cable companies or the Baby Bells that dominate local telecommunications markets around the country. ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com recently spoke to Baller, who is considered one of the most knowledgeable...
[April 16, 2004, 10:35]
Broadband Booms In US
News Recently released numbers from cable companies and from the Baby Bells who provide digital subscriber line access make it plain the companies are seeing their broadband Net businesses flourish. Just like last quarter, the results for the Baby Bells...
[October 31, 2003, 14:15]
Analysis: 'Baby Bills' Solution Has Potential
News It's now certain that the world's largest software company will face the biggest anti-trust suit that America has seen since the Bell Telephone company was broken up into the 'Baby Bells'. There are those that say it never did IBM any harm in the...
[May 19, 1998, 15:12]
DSL Makes Surprise Gain In Broadband Battle
News No one can say until other cable giants such as Comcast and Cox, and the remaining Baby Bells such as Verizon report their results. Baby Bells such as SBC, Verizon and BellSouth have introduced price cuts for as low as $29.95 (£18.46) a month for a...
[July 28, 2003, 16:43]
Ringing The Changes With VoIP
News Won't the Baby Bells lose? A: The RBOCs (regional Bell operating companies, or Baby Bells) really don't want to see an encroachment on long distance by offering voice over DSL. So you're still at the mercy of the Baby Bells and others.
[September 10, 2003, 11:45]
The Day Ahead: Everybody Wants To Be B2B
News As Tuesday's barrage of business-to-business (B2B) news shows, companies will do anything to run with shares of VerticalNet and Commerce One -- even one of those Baby Bells is singing the B2B tune. On Tuesday, SBC Communications made one of the...
[February 23, 2000, 11:57]
Net May Run Out Of IP Space - TCP/IP Pioneer
News ISPs blame the Baby Bells and the Bells blame - well, you guessed it. Comments Monday by Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf raised the question, as he condemned the industry's reluctance to adopt the latest version of Internet Protocol, the system for...
[February 10, 1998, 13:31]
AT&T Chief Determined To Ride VoIP Wave
News But VoIP, which allows businesses and consumers to make inexpensive phone calls via the Internet, plays a significant role in AT&T's long-term strategy of being the next HBO-like service to cable companies and the Baby Bells.
[September 2, 2004, 15:50]
Cisco Chief To Cable: Move It Or Lose It
News It should be noted, however, that Cisco also has a large stake in the future of the Baby Bells, with a similar set of equipment to facilitate high-speed DSL networks. The Cisco Systems chief executive urged cable operators Thursday to quickly...
[December 1, 2000, 10:41]
The Battles Of Community Broadband
News The Bells and cable companies, for their part, argue that government intervention in their business is not justified and say they are far better equipped to operate complex and far-flung data networks.
[May 9, 2005, 18:35]
MPs Unhappy Over ADSL Dominance
Talkback If 60 million population isn't big enough , how do all the CLECs & "baby Bells" in the US survive on a fraction of this number? Yeah right of course BT want FTTH - but as long as the shareholders don't have to pay for it .
[February 25, 2004, 3:06]
Hollywood's New Enemy - Linux Fans
News The goal is to ensure that legislative attempts to protect the interests of companies such as Walt Disney and the Baby Bells don't stifle technological development. Spooked by Hollywood-backed legislation that seeks to regulate technology, Linux...
[April 15, 2002, 9:30]
Xerox Chip Makes Fibre Cheaper
News The agency ruled that Baby Bells are not required to share new optical networks with competitors. Researchers at Xerox's Wilson Centre for Research and Technology announced on Wednesday that they have created a silicon chip about the size of a...
[March 27, 2003, 15:09]
Start-up Introduces Pricy Terabit Routers
News A source at one of the four Baby Bells -- Qwest Communications, Verizon Communications, SBC Communications and Bellsouth -- said the reception for these high-priced baubles is likely to be icy. Five-year-old Procket Networks introduced its first...
[April 9, 2003, 7:48]
US Report: Cable Modems Outpace ADSL
News GTE and the Baby Bells, the chief hawkers of ADSL services, are only now making their first moves from ADSL trials to commercial rollouts. The battle for the burgeoning high-speed Internet access market has been hyped as a closely fought match of...
[August 3, 1998, 9:22]
VoIP Enters The Ascendancy
News US phone companies of all shapes and sizes, including the Baby Bells -- SBC, Verizon Communications, Qwest Communications International and BellSouth -- are investing billions of dollars to move from their decaying circuit-switched network to the...
[February 3, 2005, 15:10]
The Day Ahead: AT&T Has To Deliver Broadband Promises
News AT&T reckoned it could leapfrog the Baby Bells, which are now taking AT&T's long distance market share. AT&T, which trading near 52-week lows, trimmed its profit forecasts yet again as it officially adopted Excite@Home's financial woes.
[August 29, 2000, 12:20]
MSN Previews Next Net Service
News Microsoft recently struck a deal with Verizon Communications for MSN to become the front page of the Baby Bells' DSL (digital subscriber line) service. In its never-ending campaign for Internet dominance, Microsoft showed off a test version of its...
[July 17, 2002, 7:55]
N+I: Alcatel To Expand Into US
News As the Baby Bells moved to offer high-speed Internet access, Alcatel stepped in to satisfy demand for equipment, dominating the niche for DSL (digital subscriber line) gear for companies such as BellSouth and Verizon Communications.
[May 8, 2002, 12:07]
