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...month. But now that the industry has just come up with a technical standard for residential service, many carriers are expected to shift their home DSL efforts into a higher gear. US West already offers consumers DSL service in more than a dozen states, for example, and BellSouth says it will begin rolling out DSL service to consumers in Atlanta; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Raleigh, N.C.; and four other Southeastern cities before the end of this year. Many of these services will offer less than full-throttle speeds and cost $60 or more a month, but they still spell relief from...
...merger passes regulatory muster, it could signal the start of a new round of combinations. Already AT&T and Bell Atlantic are both eyeing BellSouth as an attractive dance partner. And Ameritech could give SBC the muscle to realize CEO Edward Whitacre's long-held dream -- a takeover of the mothership via a merger with AT&T.
...access fees. Traditional long-distance providers have to pay access fees to local phone companies to reimburse them for the use of their customers' phones to "reach" the PSTN. For instance, a call from Boston to Orlando requires MCI to pay access fees to both Bell Atlantic and BellSouth--fees which are, in turn, passed on to consumers...
...Communications was baying at Wall Street, explaining that it will lose $800 million this year trying to bust into local phone service with nothing to show for it. MCI blamed its loss on the intransigence of Baby Bell operating companies in complying with the law. Baby Bells such as BellSouth have been wailing that regulators won't let them into long-distance markets and that the long-distance companies don't want to compete anyway...
...Oklahoma last month, the company filed a suit charging that the law unfairly discriminates against the Bells. "If the FCC would go ahead and let us into the long-distance business, that would stir competition [in local service] faster than anything," says Roger Flynt, a group president for BellSouth...