Word: teleport
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bucks purchases that has sent both his and the company's stock soaring. It was the perfect meeting of a CEO with an unlimited imagination and a corporation with an unlimited checkbook. In January 1998, just two months after Armstrong took the helm, the company paid $11 billion for Teleport, a company that operates fiber-optic networks in New York and other cities. Six months later, AT&T purchased Tele-Communications Inc., then the second largest cable company in the U.S., for $53.5 billion. Acquiring MediaOne, and adding its 5 million subscribers to TCI's 12 million households, would finally...
...sign for "Hey, I remembered flowers, but I'm still a dork." If you arrive 10 minutes late and out of breath, this is the International Sign for "I live in the Quad, and you live in the River. On a Saturday night I might as well try to teleport as find a shuttle." If you arrive and she says, "I just have to finish some e-mail before we go," this is the verbal International Sign...
...Comcast stock, have spent billions building up a collection of programming and telecom services. The list includes 57% of QVC (home shopping); a 68.8% piece of E! Entertainment (programming); the N.B.A.'s Philadelphia 76ers and the N.H.L.'s Flyers (more programming); a 20% stake in Teleport Communications Group (business telephone service); and a 15% position in Sprint Spectrum (cellular telephones...
...market share as that happens. Long-distance would be the obvious immediate offset." Already, dozens of firms known as "competitive access providers" deliver local voice-and-data transmission services to businesses, linking them to long-distance lines in competition with the Bells. Some of these newcomers have deep pockets. Teleport Communications Group, which operates in 37 markets, is owned by TCI and three other cable systems. "People are anxious for an alternative to the Bells," asserts Curt Hockemeier, a Teleport senior vice president. "It's going to be a wide-open fight." Declares James Crowe, chairman of MFS Communications, which...
...region. Similarly, Pacific Telesis took an option to buy a cable system in Chicago, although it will need special permission to send cable programming to the system by satellite. Cox Enterprises and Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI), the world's largest cable-TV operator, joined forces last year to buy Teleport, a company that provides a telephone service not covered by the Cable Act: private branch exchanges to business customers...