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...competition hasn?t been idle either. Companies like Verizon, AT&T and SBC have banded together to mount an aggressive attack on MCI. They?ve been primarily concerned that MCI would emerge from bankruptcy with relatively light penalties and the lowest debt load in the business. (Last May, MCI reached a $750 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the largest in the agency?s history but a fraction of the amount investors lost to fraud.) The competitors were recently helped by a whistleblower who went to Verizon and told executives there that MCI had been creatively rerouting calls...
Major phone companies offer services like SBC's Privacy Manager, which for $5 a month screens calls that don't register on caller ID. Anyone with an anonymous phone number is required to identify herself, and if she's a telemarketer, you can press a button to activate a pre-recorded message telling her not to call again--a request that telemarketers are required under federal law to respect (but one that many nonetheless ignore). "Clearly this is a privacy war, and many times the phone companies are the arms dealers," says Robert Bulmash of Private Citizen Inc., based...
...least two organizations, however, seemed ready to risk that impression. Among those at the border last week were the International Missions Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) and Samaritan's Purse, which is run by evangelist Franklin Graham. Both operations are associated with sharp criticism of Islam, the faith of 97% of Iraqis. Graham, who gave the invocation at George W. Bush's Inaugural, has called it a "very evil and wicked religion," and a former SBC president dubbed Muhammad a "demon-possessed pedophile...
...electric utilities, where my bias is for quality over very high yield. I hold Dominion [4.8%] and Southern Co. [4.8%]. A third core industry would be oil. My preference is Royal Dutch Petroleum [3.5%]. Other core holdings, with a little more risk, are telecom and tobacco. I own SBC [4.5%] and Verizon [4.3%]. You have an interesting tension in terms of whether they get into the long-distance business or lose their local businesses. But there is a lot of yield there that compensates you. Altria Group, formerly Philip Morris [6.7%], is one of my top-10 holdings...
...raising their dividend and have demonstrated the willingness," says Deborah Kuenstner, head of value investing at Putnam Investments. Her picks include power companies Entergy and Florida Power, oil company ExxonMobil and consumer-products maker Procter & Gamble. Other analysts like drugs (Pfizer, Wyeth), financials (AIG FleetBoston) and phones (Verizon, SBC). Proven funds that target dividends: T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth and Capital Income Builder...