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...Time Warner/U S West/Silicon Graphics partnership, cable giants TCI, Cox and Comcast have joined forces with the long-distance company Sprint to develop a design of a seamless nationwide system for delivering cable and telephone service. Meanwhile, a number of the Baby Bell phone companies have turned to Hollywood. Ameritech, Bell South and Southwestern Bell (now SBC Communications) are teaming up with the Walt Disney Co. to develop and distribute movies, games and other programs to home viewers. Nynex, Bell Atlantic and Pacific Telesis have been talking with superagent Michael Ovitz about forming an alliance to make and distribute films...
...move would put the firm in direct competition with regional phone companies that hold near-monopolies in those states. If the regulators approve, it could help lower your phone bill eventually, since competition tends to drive rates down. Don't count your discounts yet, though. Regional phone companies like Ameritech in the Midwest are complaining about the MCI proposal, saying that if MCI gets to offer local service, the regionals should be able to jump into the long-distance market, something they're currently forbidden from doing...
That's why the Bells have been going Hollywood. Three weeks ago, the Walt Disney Co., whose chairman, Michael Eisner, had until recently seemed to disdain two-way TV, agreed to team up with Ameritech, BellSouth and Southwestern Bell to develop and distribute movies, games and other programs to home viewers. Not to be outdone, Hollywood dealmeister Michael Ovitz, who heads the powerful Creative Artists Agency, has reportedly been meeting with nynex, Bell Atlantic and Pacific Telesis to discuss the creation of a company of their own that would make and distribute films...
Reality seems to be hitting all over. The TV trial that Viacom was supposed to launch in Castro Valley, California, next month has been postponed until the end of the year. Ameritech, which had ambitious plans to deliver interactive services to 200,000 homes in the Midwest by year's end, is waiting for government approval. US West says it is still set to bring video to 60,000 telephone customers in Omaha, Nebraska, by December but admits that "some of the more speculative video services" may have to wait...
...ataxia. The degenerative disease killed her mother at 52 and has already started to destroy the nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord of three of Vicki's brothers. "I'm 35, and that's young enough to make a career change," says Balogh, a manager at Ameritech. "I've always wanted to be a teacher, but if I have ataxia, well...