Clearwire trumpets market launches, wholesale relationships Nov 11, 2009
Most Popular Stories. Capitol Broadcasting Company, Inc. - Raleigh, NC. (Multichannel News)
Yana's Hearty Winter Corn Chowder Nov 11, 2009
Sprinkle a grated soft cheese, such as cheddar or baby bell swiss on top of each bowl, or add crumbled bacon. Or provide bowls of toppings for each person to put on for themselves. (Suite101.com)
Whitacre Prods GM With `We Need to Hurry' Message on Returning to Profit Nov 11, 2009
Whitacre likened his challenge at GM to his task at AT&T. He joined AT&Ts Southwestern Bell in 1964 and became CEO in 1990, when the so-called Baby Bell had been spun off. By the time he retired in 2007, he had spent almost $200 billion on acquisitions. (Bloomberg)
Solar Energy After Spain Oct 20, 2009
For us the erstwhile incumbents - AT Baby Bells, British Telecom, NTT, China Telecom, etc. - would protect end-user rates from rock bottom as long as the emerging technologies and their purveyors worked within the umbrella of incumbent tariffs. (Energy Pulse, CO)
GM's Henderson Said to Get 60% Odds From Task Force of Fixing Automaker Sep 9, 2009
After becoming CEO and chairman of SBC Communications Inc. in 1990, he built the smallest of the so-called Baby Bell regional companies into the biggest U.S. provider of phone services and renamed it AT&T. The company moved to Dallas from San Antonio last year after Whitacre retired in 2007. I intend to participate quite a bit, Whitacre said in the Aug. 27 interview. (Bloomberg)
12 Words You Can Never Say in the Office Aug 26, 2009
In 1984, the U.S. government forced AT&T to split up into seven Regional Bell Operating Companies [RBOCs] also known as Baby Bells. Customers bought local service from RBOCs and long-distance service from carriers such as AT&T. Telecom industry mergers over the last 15 years have formed integrated local- and long-distance carriers such as AT&T, Verizon and Qwest. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
The Newspaper-Web War Aug 4, 2009
When the Baby Bells sought regulatory approval to publish "electronic yellow pages," the newspapers beat them back by warning Congress that the telephone companies would engage in "monopolistic thought-control," Jackaway writes. Broadcast TV and cable TV have relied on sacred rhetoric in their sparring, as have cable and the telcos when they've faced off. (Slate)
10-digit phone numbers: Do you remember when we only needed five?Those were also the days when a long-distance call was a big deal Aug 4, 2009
That ended in 1983 when AT&T was forced by anti-monopoly legal action to divide itself into Baby Bells and the door was opened wide for them to compete with each other along with newcomers to telecommunications. A lot of people thought the AT&T breakup was a terrible idea. (Klamath Falls Herald & News, OR)
Greenhouses, packing plant development proposed Jul 27, 2009
One of Canada s largest greenhouse operators, Windset Farms grows tomatoes on the vine, grape tomatoes, beefsteak tomatoes, seedless and mini cucumbers, sweet bell peppers, baby bell peppers, hot peppers, super sweet grilling peppers, baby eggplants and Belgian endives, according to the company Web site. Laurie Tamura of Urban Planning Concepts, an agent for property owner Nick Tompkins, said Windset favors Santa Maria because of the climate. (Santa Maria Times)
How a 'great deal' fell apart Apr 28, 2009
AT&T was a very powerful financial company that had no growth and no real solution to the last mile because their former subsidiaries [the regional Baby Bell telephone companies] were going to be released by the FCC to compete for long distance with AT&T. A lot of [AT&T s] cash flow was the long-distance business, and they were a wholesaler of that to their former affiliates. So it was struggling with a strategic problem of what do they do to protect this huge cash-flow stream they were getting... (Denver Business Journal, CO)
CEO will take more than $33 million in cash Feb 27, 2009
9 million "change-in-control" payment from the $US35 billion sale of the former Baby Bell to Qwest. His payout at US West included $US5. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
