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...year local-telephone industry into a new shape? J. Shelby Bryan, 51, CEO of ICG Communications, Inc., of Englewood, Colo., is trying to find out. Bryan, a former Golden Gloves boxer as well as a banker, entrepreneur and corporate-turnaround artist, took charge of ICG, then known as IntelCom Group, in 1995. A good time to jump in, given the impending passage of the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, which ordered the Baby Bell phone companies to end their monopolies of local service. Now Bryan is trying to outsprint other new companies by offering phone service via electrical-utility lines...
...surprisingly, many of the newcomers charge that the Baby Bells are busily erecting barriers to these challenges. The upstarts, who often lease lines from the Bells and use them to provide transmission services, say the companies can be maddeningly slow to make equipment available. IntelCom Group, a Denver-based provider of alternative service, charged in an Federal Communications Commission complaint three months ago that U.S. West had failed to furnish high-capacity phone lines on schedule 83% of the time. The Bells "have obviously tried to drag this out and delay things," says J. Shelby Bryan, the president of IntelCom...
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