There has to be a cheaper way to escape the clutches of the Baby Bells.
And second, the Baby Bells will have to deploy high-speed links of their own.
Yet the Baby Bells dislike this market-friendly approach: too complicated and not cost-effective, they say.
He never sold it, reinvested all dividends and, after the 1984 breakup, exchanged shares in some Baby Bells for others.
They want to add wireless telephony to their service bundles, better to compete with America's regional fixed-line incumbents, the Baby Bells.
The first question the FCC has to ask is what was the main purpose of splitting Ma Bell into the baby bells?
Two of America's biggest local-telephone companies are to merge, which will reduce the number of Baby Bells , originally seven, to four.
For all its high-tech local networks, the firm faces a fierce battle against the entrenched Baby Bells, which are preparing for a price war.
SBC, and the remaining Baby Bells, but among cable firms, too.
Originally, shareholders received shares in each of the 7 Baby Bells.
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The flagship Titan 5500, introduced in 1991, came just at the cusp of a huge capital spending boom from the Baby Bells and long distance carriers.
MCI's brand, marketing and billing systems with its burgeoning local-telephone operations, it might be able to take a big slice of business away from the Baby Bells.
The big risk here has to do with the Federal Communications Commission's decision to stop forcing the Baby Bells to lease out their consumer phone lines at discount prices.
MCI's dream of offering integrated long-distance, local and Internet access without having to pay the Baby Bells their current tariff of 45 cents out of every dollar of long-distance revenues.
Shortly after he arrived as chief executive officer in July 1993, he gave the go-ahead to develop a supercharged digital box to serve a new world of fully interactive video networks to be built by the Baby Bells, Time Warner and others.
Citing a deepening financial crisis in telecommunications, U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell proposed that local telephone companies--the "Baby Bells, " such as SBC and Verizon--be allowed to bid for the remnants of WorldCom, whose major remaining asset is long-distance carrier MCI.
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