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...YORK: How many phone companies are in your future? Fewer than there are now -- but if you're lucky, each of them will do a lot more for you than the former AT&T monopoly. Tuesday's announcement that local phone giant Bell Atlantic will swallow GTE certainly positions it to be one of the last Bells standing -- but expect the FCC to make sure it gives a little, first...
...Bell Atlantic, AT&T -- all these companies want their brand to be one-stop shopping: local phone service, long-distance service and Internet access," says TIME business correspondent John Greenwald. "The FCC just needs to ensure that there are more than one of these brands in each market." Under the Telecommunications Act, the Baby Bells have to give up their monopoly on the local markets -- and that hasn't happened yet, which is a major hurdle for this merger. But if it's approved, Bell Atlantic, armed with GTE's long-distance service, will have taken a step toward crossover...
30.For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway...
...probably get this a lot, but the name Depeche Mode rings a bell...
From 1981 to 1987 he was the director of the Solid State Electronics Research Laboratory at AT&T Bell Laboratories and from 1987 to 1992 he was vice president of research and exploratory technology at Sandia National Laboratories...