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...home markets are open to competition. How? By fulfilling 14 separate terms of compliance. So far, none has. When regulators rejected SBC's application to provide long-distance service in 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...
...CORP. You can't put Humpty Dumpty back together, says FCC head...
Microsoft no doubt hopes to galvanize others into investing. FCC chairman Reed Hundt believes the deal will prompt the cable industry and then the phone companies to up their investment in interactivity. "For the past year and a half the cable industry has been trying to explain to everybody what they have and how valuable it is," says Hundt. "No one was listening until Gates gave his stamp of approval...
Anyone paying attention could have seen these things happening, but it took an event like Gates' investment in Comcast to drive it all home. "In one day there's an epiphany," observes the FCC chairman, Reed Hundt. Gates is the premier techno-futurist of our time. "He's saying what's past is past--this is the future," notes media analyst John Reidy at Smith Barney. Some cable executives may now enjoy vindication for their expensive strategies, and investors may reap the rewards for their patience--although cable stocks have been so horrible that they'll have to shoot much...
...addition to his work with the FCC, Ma is also the co-author of Teleshock (1985) and The Practical Guide to Practically Everything (1995), two books which deal with information technology and the telecommunications industry...