Bell Atlantic dominates the local-phone market in the northeastern United States, where it has 42m customers.
In a fight between Bell Atlantic and Vodafone, the British firm has the edge.
Officially, iAdvance is separate from SBC, although the group has acknowledged receiving funding from SBC and Bell Atlantic.
Bell Atlantic is expected any day to apply for and win permission to offer long-distance services in New York State.
Miller refuses to discuss whether all of iAdvance's funding comes from SBC and Bell Atlantic, the two biggest RBOCs.
In 1996, while serving as CEO of Nynex, he was instrumental in pulling off a merger with Bell Atlantic.
In addition, the court ruled in several cases last year-- Bell Atlantic v.
It turned out that Bell Atlantic has two entrances to the same building.
He's based in Philadelphia, where he runs all of Bell Atlantic's international wireless ventures, and is on Bell Atlantic's payroll.
It will be hard for Bell Atlantic to argue for any fee for something that costs them nothing, Hardt says.
But TCI's critics weren't quelled, and in 1993 Malone set plans to bail out, agreeing to sell TCI to Bell Atlantic.
Bell Atlantic and SBC have formed a separate lobby on the issue.
Owned 48% by billionaire Carlos Peralta and his family and 42% by the U.S.' Bell Atlantic, Iusacell introduced stock options in April 1997.
She is treading where the giants of media and technology -- Time Warner, Bell Atlantic and Microsoft, among them -- have already stumbled.
Although Bell Atlantic shareholders will own a bit more of the new (as yet unnamed) company, the deal is essentially a marriage of equals.
's computer financing division was merged with one at Bell Atlantic.
Later, Mr McCourt began laying his own telephone cables, building small local networks for commercial customers that allowed them to bypass Bell Atlantic's Boston predecessor.
The toll-free number -- 1-877-KIDS-NOW or 1-877-543-7669 -- has been developed by the National Governors' Association (NGA) and Bell Atlantic to provide state by state information.
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But Bell Atlantic is quite understandably spending most of its capital dollars in the southeast corner, which accounts for 75% of the state's population and revenues.
The traffic was combined by the IAD, and fed down the DSL line to a Choice One DSL multiplexer in the local Bell Atlantic switching office.
The company is a 45:55 joint venture between Vodafone and Verizon Communications - the company formed last year from the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE.
She is treading where the giants of media and technology -- Time Warner, Bell Atlantic and Microsoft, among them -- have already stumbled (see box, p. 116).
Last year Bell Atlantic itself nabbed Nynex for Dollars25 billion.
For example, Bell Atlantic acknowledges in a New York filing that its actual cost of line sharing is zero, a significant admission, according to Dean Hardt, senior counsel for DSL CLEC Covad Communications.
Go inside the switching stations of service providers like Bell Atlantic, and you'll see a hybrid of boxes, some meant for clear and reliable voice traffic and some for uncertain but superfast data flows.
But Bell Atlantic, which recently offered all state schools and libraries the means to connect to the Internet for two years, is quite understandably spending most of its capital dollars in the southeast corner, which accounts for 75% of the state's population and revenues.
That said, as fixed-line voice telephony becomes a low-growth commodity, it is Sprint's mobile-phone arm and its 4m subscribers that must seem irresistible to Mr Ebbers, especially in the wake of last week's deal to unite the American wireless assets of Vodafone AirTouch with Bell Atlantic's mobile business.
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