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Greetings, dear telephone customer! are you bewildered by all the marketing pitches for long-distance service that AT&T, MCI and Sprint have been hurling at you? Well, you ain't seen nothing yet. Consider what's come until now as basic training for the blitzkrieg of packages and special offers that will arrive once Congress moves to deregulate local telephone service and cable-TV and let eager new competitors charge into that field, bringing business rivalries, price wars, heated local politics and...yes, of course, TV linkups over phone lines and phone calls via cable. "Things will go insane...
...business. Other firms, including long-distance carriers, could also provide local phone service. Result: one-stop shopping in which companies would offer packages of telephone and TV services directly to the home. With that in mind, cable firms TCI, Cox Enterprises and Comcast last year joined forces with Sprint to develop a nationwide network for delivering cable and telephone signals to the same customers...
...fact, the House bill represents a balancing act of corporate interests that could still come crashing down. It teetered last week when AT&T, Sprint, MCI and nearly 500 other long-distance carriers bitterly challenged the provisions, added late in the game, that would permit the Baby Bells to jump into long-distance service before substantial competition arrived on the local level. Furious representatives of the long-distance industry swung from supporting the House bill to actively lobbying against it. On Friday a group of small long-distance carriers held a news conference with consumer groups to attack the bill...
...approval, backers would have to replace or win over 63 House members and, at last count, at least 24 Senators. Yet advocates like Cleta Mitchell, director of the Term Limits Legal Institute, insist their enthusiasm is abiding. Says she: "I've always considered this a marathon rather than a sprint...
...Another five strokes and we would have had them," Flatt said. "It was an amazing sprint. We were all together, it's a great feeling when...