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In fact, the House bill represents a balancing act of corporate interests that could still come crashing down. It teetered last week when AT&T, Sprint, MCI and nearly 500 other long-distance carriers bitterly challenged the provisions, added late in the game, that would permit the Baby Bells to...
The Bell-AT&T squabbling is a paradigm of the shifting and shaky alliances between politicians and pressure groups in the telecommunications wars. Members of the long-distance coalition had relied on Thomas Bliley of Virginia, who chairs the House Commerce Committee, to deliver their agenda. But two weeks ago...
Fishy or not, the Baby Bells have outmaneuvered the long-distance carriers at nearly every turn. "There's nothing in the House or Senate bills for the long-distance companies," says Charles Schelke, who follows the telecommunications industry for the investment firm Smith Barney. Part of the reason, he says...
But not to AT&T and the others, who are worried that the Bells would use their clout in local markets and local politics to steer customers toward signing up with them for long-distance service. Competitors fret too that the Bells already have the phone lines, switches and other...
The Baby Bells have not only outfoxed but also outspent their rivals. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the Bells gave $3.1 million to congressional campaigns in 1994, $800,000 more than the long-distance companies and cable carriers combined. But more than just money has helped the Bells...