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[Page C1.] Phone Mergers May Give Bells an Edge Over Cable In the chess game between the cable companies and their nemeses, the Bell phone companies, the Bells may be gaining ground.
In the chess game between the cable companies and their nemeses, the Bell phone companies, the Bells may be gaining ground.
Fifty years ago, consumers were allowed to hook up only Bell telephones to their Bell phone lines.
But Qwest, the smallest and weakest of the Bell phone companies, raised its offer Thursday to $30 a share.
So far, Bell Atlantic is the only Bell phone company to have won long-distance approval, for New York State.
In the 1970s, researchers at Bell Labs were asked to imagine that the entire Bell phone system had been destroyed.
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The businessman founded Qwest in 1995 and used the company to launch a takeover of US West, one of the old "baby bells" phone companies.
In McLoughlin's work, there were in total 50 classes of sound events selected from the RWCP Sound Scene Database, such as the wooden, metal and china impacts, friction sounds, bells, phones ringing, and whistles, and each class included 80 files.
BellSouth, the only one of the seven original Baby Bell local phone companies that has not yet participated in a major merger, lost a bidding war for Sprint with WorldCom last year.
AT&T failed to adjust to the Internet (and was acquired by one of its smaller "baby bell" local phone companies, that later took its former parent's grand name).Kodak fared the worst since the shift to digital photography was so massive and sudden.
Another area: FCC was way too restrictive in letting the Baby Bell local phone monopolies get into long-distance business.
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