And BellSouth, in effect's been around for a hundred years, Google's been around since what, 1998?
Hartmann thought he had a deal with BellSouth to increase its O.tel.o stake and manage the business.
That deal eventually fell apart, but BellSouth would still like to get its hands on a long-distance carrier.
In its February earnings report Cisco said it "was chosen to build out optical networks" for BellSouth, among other telcos.
BellSouth already uses a lot of Qwest's network, and might be interested in buying just that chunk of the business.
Before starting the business, Allan Keiter did pricing work for UPS, Continental Airlines, and BellSouth Cellular (which is now part of Cingular).
With BellSouth off the table, the remaining lines out there become all the more valuable--and another regional phone company will probably soon take center stage.
He tried to convince BellSouth Cellular to go online--but was rebuffed.
But talks broke down, and BellSouth never formally made the offer.
Hollings is less enamored of the four remaining Baby Bell telephone companies (BellSouth, Qwest, SBC and Verizon) than are McCain or House Commerce Committee Chairman Billy Tauzin, R-La.
BellSouth will use similar technologies, and it expects to pass half of their 12 million households by the end of 2007 and three-quarters by the end of 2009.
Other areas to look for yield and value include some of the beaten-down telecom companies such as BellSouth and SBC Communications, as well as REITs--particularly the apartment variety.
Or Qwest could huddle for warmth with BellSouth (nyse: BLS - news - people ), another Baby Bell that's been left out in the cold.
The cable industry is aggressively competing with the parent companies of Verizon Wireless-- Verizon Communications and Vodafone--and Cingular--SBC Communications and BellSouth--and it's tough to imagine a tie-up between them.
Leader Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon and Vodafone, number two Cingular is an SBC-BellSouth collaboration and number four Sprint PCS is a tracking stock of Sprint.
Published reports say that Apple and Motorola will announce an agreement with wireless carrier Cingular, a joint venture between BellSouth and SBC Communications, and will introduce the phone that day.
Street announced the city's wireless plans in the spring of 2004, local telecommunications providers, including Verizon Communications, BellSouth and Sprint, objected, saying that the project would amount to unfair competition.
An internal retractable modem will enable a user to connect with some of the most popular wireless networks today, including Motient's DataTAC, BellSouth's Mobitex and CDPD (Cellular Digital Packet Data).
BellSouth uses Jabber for its 1.5 million Internet customers.
This merger is about buying the lines that connect to the homes of BellSouth customers and selling them everything you can squeeze down a fiber-optic line, including television, Internet, movies and music.
BellSouth (nyse: BLS - news - people ) Vice Chairman Gary Forsee is expected to take the chief executive post at Sprint (nyse: FON - news - people ).
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This came from BellSouth, and they're - BellSouth's William Smith told reporters that he would like the Internet to be turned into a pay for performance marketplace where his company would be allowed, for example, to charge Yahoo!
BellSouth (nyse: BLS - news - people ) will use similar technologies, and it expects to pass half of their 12 million households by the end of 2007 and three-quarters by the end of 2009.
If you had shares in the Bell system before divestiture and held them through the myriad mergers, subsequent divestitures and stock splits, you'd now have stakes in 11 telecommunications firms, including such performers as Lucent Technologies, BellSouth and SBC Communications.
The credentials have since been pulled from the web, but it turns out they weren't just for Yahoo accounts, as Gmail, AOL, Hotmail, Comcast, MSN, SBC Global, Verizon, BellSouth and Live.com login info was also pilfered and placed on display.
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Then, while at BellSouth, it dawned on me that buying wireless wasn't really fundamentally different from buying an airfare, because it would eventually become a commodity mostly shopped on price, and therefore the industry would follow the same general distribution path.
Daniel Akerson , a former president of MCI --now part of WorldCom--who is the current chairman of XO Communications , and Gary Forsee , vice chairman of BellSouth , have been mentioned, though it's not clear that either wants the job.
Final tallies of supremacy may have to wait until the merger processes are complete, but one thing is certain: Forsee's combo telecom has vaulted into the lofty elite of No. 2 provider Verizon Wireless--a joint venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone--and the market's top dog, the JV of SBC Communications and BellSouth, Cingular.
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