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...device is made by Research In Motion, and used to be available only with Blackberry's wireless service, over the BellSouth Data Network. But last week major wireless retailers across the country began selling an upgraded and even cooler RIM-made gadget for a telecom company called American Mobile, based in Reston, Va. The new device, dubbed the eLink, should shame young Marshall and her fancy Blackberry-toting crowd...
...Paxson's chairman and released more than 1,500 pages of letters McCain wrote as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee to agencies under the committee's jurisdiction. That was intended to prove that even if McCain had assisted Paxson and a wide variety of others, such as BellSouth, Ameritech and US West, he had also helped nondonors, including a Texas radio station. In one case he asked for an investigation of the use of cartoon characters on gambling machines, against the wishes of major gambling-industry contributors...
Could it be true ? that in the big, bad world of American business, money isn?t everything? Sprint board members are mulling a pair of monster cash-and-stock takeover offers from fellow telecom giants MCI-WorldCom ($65 a share) and BellSouth (an eleventh-hour $72 a share, both according to the Wall Street Journal). But though both offers could be the better part of $100 billion, CNNfn reports that Sprint will choose MCI?s poorer dowry in a vote as early as Monday. What gives? The reason may be that a lack of post-handshake regulatory headaches...
Moved PermanentlyMoved PermanentlyFortune Investor DataBellSouth has the cash to outbid almost anyone, but that $7-a-share premium is for a deal that could face serious problems going through. "This is a Baby Bell trying to get into long distance, and BellSouth alone has already been rejected [as a potential long-distance carrier] by the FCC three times," says Greenfeld. "Until AT&T can make a real business out of offering local service over their phone lines, the FCC is likely to make any BellSouth wait ?- and that doesn?t even include state-by-state approval by state regulators...
...study by Hewitt Associates, firms that offer employee stock-ownership plans (ESOPs) outperform their industry peers handily. Though more firms now offer stock options to lure new hires, 1,000 public companies (and 9,000 private ones) currently motivate workers with ESOPs. They include such companies as UAL, BellSouth, Allied Signal, Merrill Lynch and Procter & Gamble...