SBC Is Going National With Its Local Service
nytimes.com
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Now, for the first time, that truce is breaking in a big way. SBC is invading the territories of BellSouth, Verizon (which includes what used to be Bell Atlantic and Nynex) and Qwest Communications (which includes what used to be U S West). In so doing, SBC hopes to siphon $1 billion in annual revenue from its Bell brethren within two years. ...
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...after a visit to West 26th Street in Manhattan. There, on the ground floor of a cavernous building that SBC shares with dot-com companies and modeling agencies, among others, is a hulking Caterpillar diesel engine that has been installed to provide backup power for SBC's communications gear.
Upstairs, SBC has contracted to sublet 27,000 square feet from Williams Communications, which also provides SBC with long-distance communications capacity. This is mostly a Lucent shop. Technicians were installing a new voice telephone switch made by Lucent Technologies and were installing racks for more advanced equipment that uses a technology called asynchronous transfer mode, which helps transmit voice, video and data communications on a single network. ...
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...William J. Rouhana Jr., who as chairman of Winstar Communications Inc., a small competitive local communications company based in New York, has an interest in SBC's failure, predicted: "They're not serious. They will do the minimum they have to to meet the regulatory requirement they face." ...
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