In that case, the plan will be big trouble for regional Bell companies.
Nor do they have to fear competition from their most formidable natural rivals, the regional Bell companies, because the Bells are barred from carrying traffic long distance.
Brown graduated in 1969 with a science degree from Ohio University, worked his way up the ranks of Bell companies in the Midwest and later headed a restructuring at Ameritech and ran its Illinois Bell unit.
Chief among the most often cited suitors are the various regional bell operating companies, or local phone providers.
The Regional Bell Operating Companies weren't legally able to sell voice-mail services yet.
But while MCI was trying to lease lines from Bell operating companies and resell telephone service, AutEx was figuring out how to arbitrage telecommunications another way.
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.
The flagship Titan 5500, introduced in 1991, came just at the cusp of a huge capital spending boom from the U.S.' regional Bell telephone companies and long-distance carriers.
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 regional Bell telephone companies, Time Warner and others.
By the end of the week, after the bell on Friday, most companies had reversed their gains a little.
Data center companies Equinix and Cincinnati Bell-owned CyrusOne have also said they are exploring REIT status.
FORBES: REITs Boom As More Industries Discover This Tax-Friendly Structure
There will always be a huge gap in team values because telecommunications companies like Rogers and Bell Canada can leverage the media rights for the Maple Leafs multiples of what Stillman can command in media fees for the Blues.
FORBES: NHL Team Values 2012: Toronto Maple Leafs Are First Hockey Team Worth $1 Billion
Other companies that are regarded as bell weathers for economic activity are ending the year with negative or flat returns.
Some companies, led by Taco Bell, had agreed as early as 2005 to pay the extra cent the farmworkers were demanding.
The partnership is likely to continue paying off for both companies, with Creed saying Taco Bell plans to keep looking for new Doritos flavors for its tacos.
The definitive agreement was announced before the bell on Monday, sending the stocks of both companies surging in early trading.
Typically, the chief executives of big-IPO companies show up to ring the opening bell, a publicity stunt, but a coveted invitation nonetheless.
Just as Seidenberg climbed the ladder from assistant technician to CEO, he's helped his company grow from Baby Bell to become the mother of all regional phone companies.
At companies such as Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, the most popular job titles being hired include team members, shift managers and leaders, assistant managers and even delivery drivers.
Ma Bell was broken up in 1984, but the various companies are putting her back together one piece at a time.
FORBES: T-Mobile Spectrum Grab Gives AT&T Stock A Green Light
Williams Companies came out of left field just after the bell on Thursday and outbid Energy Transfer in an all-cash deal to acquire Southern Union, turning up the heat in what could become a bidding war for the natural gas pipeline operator.
No U.S. economic data is out today, but several companies were out with their results ahead of the opening bell including Verizon (nyse: VZ - news - people ), which turned a profit in the first quarter.
West Coast companies, for example, tend to announce after the closing bell, saving executives from rising before dawn.
FORBES: J.C. Penney: To Avoid Wild Stock Swings, Quarterly Reports Shift To Afternoon
"Packard Bell is essentially a sales company that gets its PCs made by other companies under contract, " says Leu.
Perhaps one of the most representative companies of the global economies, Caterpillar posted fourth quarter earnings before the bell on Thursday, more than quadrupling profits and forecasting a better 2011 on continued demand from emerging markets and continued upward momentum in commodity prices.
FORBES: Caterpillar More Than Quadruples Profits On Global Economic Recovery
While we're no stranger to companies having multiple brands to serve different markets, such as Acer's Gateway and Packard Bell divisions, they usually have the courtesy of acknowledging each other's existences and presenting a coherent strategy.
Since Puryear joined Lante, he's lured a dozen top executives from companies like EDS, IBM and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, including a hotshot chief financial officer from Cincinnati Bell spinoff Convergys (see box, p. 128).
FedEx, one of those companies considered to provide an x-ray of global markets, posted first quarter earnings before the bell on Thursday, spooking the world as it cut its full-year outlook and said the global economy would grow slower than expected.
FORBES: FedEx Spooks Everyone Saying Global Economy Will Cool Significantly
Larry Bell is an endowed professor of space architecture at the University of Houston and the cofounder of several private space exploration companies.
应用推荐