Word: accessability
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This deal amounts to a huge bet that you will come to see a rejuvenated Ma Bell as a benevolent Ma Everything, offering local and long-distance telephone service, high-speed Internet access and new television options such as video on demand, all bundled into that little white wire...
...course, AT&T owned the last mile back before it was even called the last mile. But that monopoly was broken up by regulators in 1984, forcing the company to divest the Baby Bells--and pay them access fees to use their lines. "If you have to go through your competitors, then how can you be effective in satisfying your customers?" Armstrong asks, explaining his decision to begin purchasing cable companies. "I asked, What was it going to take to become the greatest communications company in the world...
...hands. Internet power America Online, software supremo Microsoft, telecom giant MCI Worldcom and cable's Comcast (which made the initial $48 billion bid for MediaOne that AT&T overwhelmed) all huddled at various times because each had something to lose. AOL, for instance, could find its access to cable-modem customers blocked and its booming online-content business threatened...
Those of you with internet access probably have read the blurbs on the Internet Movie Database about Ewan McGregor making light saber-esque buzzing noises during his battle scenes and about Natalie Portman's having to redub all her lines in postproduction because the pitch of her voice had changed during shooting...
America Online announced new venues Tuesday for connecting customers to the Internet, focusing on set-top boxes that sometime next year should bring online access through the television. The partnerships with TV and computer equipments makers such as DirectTV, Hughes Network Systems, Philips Electronics and Network Computer come a week after AOL's dominance seemed threatened by AT&T's growing cable empire and deals with At Home and Microsoft. The set-top box is supposed to hold special appeal for the half of U.S. households that don't have a computer, a market that AOL must tap in order...