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Most recently, Allen bigfooted Walter out of the way to explore a merger with SBC Communications, Inc., the largest of the regional Bells. The talks collapsed amid unofficial hints from FCC chairman Reed Hundt on the order of "Are you nuts?"
The most complex problem might be this: if you were a local phone company with 100% of the market, how helpful would you be in allowing a competitor into the area? Exactly. Although would-be warriors such as AT&T, MCI ($18.5 billion) and Sprint ($14.1 billion) are huge, well...
SBC and its sister Bells say the real problem is that AT&T and MCI do not want to get into the local market, because to do so would free the Bells to compete in the long-distance domain. Says Jim Ellis, SBC's general counsel: "We can bring them...
Actually, one of the biggest roadblocks to full competition may be the Telecommunications Act itself. To qualify for the long-distance game, the Bells have to demonstrate that their home markets are open to competition. How? By fulfilling 14 separate terms of compliance. So far, none has. When regulators rejected...
That will make Ameritech a force when wide-open competition begins. "Things will continue to play out in court for the next six to eight months," says Gary Stibel, founder of the New England Consulting Group, whose telephone clients have included all three major long-distance companies as well as...