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...economy has changed. To its credit, Dow Jones made a major substitution last November, adding Intel, Microsoft, SBC Communications and Home Depot, while booting Chevron, Goodyear, Sears and Union Carbide. So now the 30-stock Dow includes...
...by long-distance carriers AT&T and Sprint and major local phone companies Bell Atlantic, BellSouth, GTE and SBC Communications. Industry officials said the plan is a major step in moving the long-distance business toward the trend of flat-rate...
...formerly Bell Atlantic, Accenture was formerly Anderson Consulting, and Cingular was created out of BellSouth and SBC Communications. Overall, fewer companies are advertising, about two dozen compared with about 30 last year when the game was...
...one-year period, AT&T's stable of online billing customers tripled, from 300,000 to 1 million. At carrier SBC Communications Inc., the number more than quadrupled, from 134,000 to 600,000. To push customers away from paper bills...
...bankruptcy threatens to scare off anxious customers who have been approaching competitors like Sprint, AT&T and SBC Communications since news of the accounting scandal broke. Drake Johnstone, a telecom analyst with Davenport & Co. in Richmond...
...But the competition from other providers offering premium services to broadband users is already heating up. SBC Communications Corp., for example, joined with Yahoo! last fall to offer a full-featured high-speed access service to consumers...
...business is leasing time, essentially line capacity, from the larger, more established firms such as Qwest or SBC Communications and selling it to consumers -- in theory, more cheaply than the big companies can. The company was incorporated...
...see some form of IPTV starting later this year, and millions of homes may have the option by the end of 2006. SBC Communications Inc., the dominant local phone company from the Midwest to California, is deploying a full-blown IPTV system...
...industry's data pipes, though phone companies are beginning to roll out high-bandwidth fiber to residences. SBC Communications Inc., for instance, has run a VoIP trial for some DSL subscribers and plans to offer an interim service in the...
...although not a Bell company, stands among the top local phone operators. Together, the two will trump in size SBC Communications -- which last year combined with Bell company Ameritech to create a regional phone giant. To gain approval, the...