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...NAME: Melanie Robinson COMPANY: BellSouth TITLE: Senior Manager of Advertising...
...press secretary, policy director, deputy chief of staff and general counsel--as well as Karl Gallant, who had served as executive director of DeLay's political-action committee. Buckham's firm has a long and lucrative client list, which, according to its website, includes the American Bankers Association, BellSouth, Eli Lilly, Fannie Mae, R.J. Reynolds and Time Warner (parent of this magazine...
...employees can reduce its long-distance bill 70%--some of that lost revenue can probably be regained over the long term through value-added services that the voice-data combination is just beginning to make possible. For that reason, most of the major phone companies--AT&T, BellSouth, Qwest Communications, Sprint and Verizon--have already announced a VOIP offering of some sort. They too are responding to upstarts like end-to-end IP service provider GoBeam, based in Pleasanton, Calif. Ultimately, residential customers will reap some of the same rewards...
...long years after the Telecommunications Act was supposed to help break the Baby Bells' hammerlock on local phone service, competition in the residential market is finally starting to heat up--and the Bells' once dependable growth is cooling down. Thanks to newly aggressive state regulators who are forcing BellSouth, SBC Communications, Verizon and the much smaller Qwest to lease their networks to competitors at lower prices, rivals like AT&T and MCI are for the first time snapping up some of the most lucrative customers. "Now we have a real fight," says former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Reed Hundt...
Echoing most telecom-industry analysts, Powell has made clear that he thinks that the industry may well need another round of consolidation to get back on sound footing--whether that means SBC and BellSouth or Verizon and Qwest joining forces, the Bells snapping up their newfound competitors at AT&T and MCI, or some of the six major wireless carriers finding strength in numbers. But, as Gene Kimmelman, co-director of the Washington office of Consumers Union, points out, "If Powell goes too hard too fast, he could end up with egg all over his face, with a more monopolistic...