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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead all we've heard is howling. Last week MCI 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNG UP ON COMPETITION | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

...most complex problem might be this: if you were a local phone company with 100% of the market, how helpful would you be in allowing a competitor into the area? Exactly. Although would-be warriors such as AT&T, MCI ($18.5 billion) and Sprint ($14.1 billion) are huge, well-capitalized companies, they can't duplicate the $100 billion infrastructure of switches, wires and poles that serves local neighborhoods. Deregulation allows them to ride the incumbent's system, but here's where the static begins: they must rely on the tender mercies of the Bells and GTE to put them into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNG UP ON COMPETITION | 7/21/1997 | See Source »

...this company will get back on track." Some of that wondering showed in AT&T's closing stock price: down 1 5/16 to $35. What AT&T needs, says Kadlec, is a discernible plan. "They have to declare whether they're getting into the local services competition or not. MCI has gotten together with British Telecom, but AT&T just doesn't seem to have a business strategy." Allen has said he's open to offers of a partnership with GTE, the largest U.S. local phone company, or a Baby Bell. For now, the company is on a recruiting binge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ship in a Storm | 7/17/1997 | See Source »

...winners of the wire-less race, most handicappers put their money on major carriers such as AT&T, Sprint and MCI, which are creating "national footprints" with digital and analog systems. They also have the money to survive a down-and-dirty price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOBILE WARFARE | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

...transferred to a prominent pro-choice group instead. In January, Planned Parenthood began garnishment proceedings against AmeriVision Communications Inc., the parent company of LifeLine, a phone service that bills itself as a moral alternative to what it describes as "pro-gay, pro-liberal values" carriers like AT&T and MCI. LifeLine diverts 10% of payments to a cause checked off by its 1.2 million customers. Last year it raised more than $10 million for charities that include several Christian Coalition groups, the American Family Association and Operation Rescue-National. In May 1994, Planned Parenthood was awarded $1.01 million in damages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 12, 1997 | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

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