Word: verizons
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...Ebbers' renamed company, MCI, it's free of its former bosses but faces bone-crushing competition from Verizon and others entering the long-distance market. There probably isn't enough business for all three dedicated long-distance firms: AT&T, Sprint and MCI. A spiffed-up MCI coming out of bankruptcy court could quickly become takeover bait. And that would end this corporate saga pretty much where it began. --By Daniel Kadlec. Reported by Dody Tsiantar and Barbara Kiviat/New York and Alice Jackson Baughn/Brookhaven
...definitely switching to Verizon. I am going to pay the cancellation fees,” Reid said...
...Verizon, can you hear us now? " JOHN ZEGLIS, chairman and CEO of AT&T Wireless, after accepting a $41 billion bid from Cingular Wireless that will create the U.S.'s largest cellular-phone company...
...high a price. ABN Amro analyst Jamie Mariani calls the merger idea "nonsense,'' arguing that the $35 billion price tag, plus $8 billion in AT&T debt, would obliterate any benefits. And to make a deal Vodafone would have to wriggle out of its noncompete accord with Verizon, the U.S. leader, by agreeing to dump its 45% of Verizon stock. AT&T should pick a suitor by month's end. A Pourboire for the Chefs Maybe there is such a thing as a free lunch. Even as it struggles to contain its ballooning budget deficit, the French government last week...
...task is daunting (or even impossible) both because of the sheer volume of music traded illegally and the challenges of litigation. These challenges were compounded in a powerful December ruling against the recording industry by the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia: The court asserted that Verizon, an internet service provider, could not be compelled by subpoena to release the names of users suspected of illegally downloading music. Apple and Pepsi will make a winning team because they circumvent these difficulties, instead attacking illicit file-sharing by offering legal music downloads to consumers at low cost, thus...