And the cable operators aren t required to get local phone franchise agreements themselves.
CLECs that simply repackage broadband connections they have bought from local phone companies at wholesale prices.
Meantime, local phone companies are starting to sell high-speed Internet access through digital subscriber lines.
Maybe Janet Reno's successor will do something useful and break up the local phone companies.
Some small firms have tried to bully their way into the local phone market.
The phone giant's sales were pulled lower, due to a loss of local phone lines.
Budget-minded travelers with more free time would be better off using a local phone card or VoIP services.
Chief among the most often cited suitors are the various regional bell operating companies, or local phone providers.
For nearly a year, FBI agents had been tracking an Israeli businessman working for a local phone company.
Leeds' crew was able to cut out the local phone companies by moving the data using microwave radios.
Imagine how a combination of, say, Global Crossing or Williams fiber and Yipes services could kill the local phone company.
They can rent a phone at the airport or online, then arrange delivery to their hotels--or buy a local phone.
The local phone monopolies have no incentive to aggressively roll out DSL. They feel no competitive pressure to do so.
Countries sometimes say they block Skype because its free or low-cost calls cut into the revenue of local phone companies.
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It is no longer fanciful to envisage America's Dollars100 billion local phone market being carved up between two super-regional monopolies.
Venko, a local phone maker, now offers a handset that holds four chips, automatically choosing the cheapest for each call.
The giant local phone companies appear to have escaped the telecom crackup.
He began buying up local phone companies and excess fiber-optic capacity in such places as Spokane, Washington, mostly so he could study the local phone business.
The technology can scale easily as patients can do the tests themselves in minutes and are as cheap as making a local phone call.
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Hundreds of new local phone companies were created by financial speculators with no experience in the industry and little regard for actual consumer demand.
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Snapping in a new card will make your phone act as if it's a local phone, complete with a local phone number and local rates.
When the government sold Eircom, Ireland's dominant telecom provider, into private hands in July 1999, it had a 90% market share of local phone service.
Historically, the USF has helped smaller carriers subsidize local phone service.
Local phone cards offer cheaper rates, but the potential for more headaches as well, including technical glitches and assistance or directions limited to the local language.
Besides expressing little interest in buying into Ma Bell's shrinking long-distance business, he also said he would like to sell off many of his local phone lines.
People in Scotland pay the price of a local phone call when calling the advice service from a landline, with calls from a mobile often costing more.
Sprint will have to seek cooperation from local phone companies, which must provide Sprint access to their customers so that Sprint can link FastBreak directly to existing lines.
Globalstar's 48 birds act more like flying antennas, carrying calls to switching systems on the ground that are simple to operate and are linked into local phone networks.
Flanary, a part-time tennis pro, worked in marketing at Bestline, an Austin, Tex. firm that competes with the established Bells and other companies in providing local phone service.
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