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The Motley Fool April 22, 2004 Phil Wohl	Ma Bell Holding the Line Can AT&T, the leading telecom company, lead an industry out of the doldrums?
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InternetNews May 21, 2004 Ron Miller	SBC Coping During 4-day Strike SBC's networks were tested during a union strike, but managed to run at a 99.9 percent rate of effectiveness.
The Motley Fool August 23, 2004 Rich Smith	Can 2 Wrongs Make Cingular Right? The acquisition of AT&T Wireless by SBC Communications and BellSouth daughter Cingular Wireless may be little more than the joining of two bad cell phone companies to make one very bad cell phone company.
The Motley Fool April 27, 2004 Phil Wohl	Verizon's Cloudy Horizon I guess it shouldn't come as a surprise that another telecom services company reported weak first-quarter earnings. The latest telecom to underwhelm the investment community was Verizon Communications, which reported first-quarter earnings today.
The Motley Fool August 13, 2004 W.D. Crotty	Quality Gets Swept Away The Tampa-based bulk transportation company Quality Distribution is hammered after reporting a large loss for the second quarter.
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The Motley Fool February 12, 2004 Dave Marino-Nachison	Strikes Against Safeway Investors are pushing the grocer's shares up to pre-strike levels as labor talks resume.
The Motley Fool March 15, 2004 Ben McClure	Same Old AT&T? Will AT&T be able to reinvent itself to keep up with the changing times?
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The Motley Fool February 3, 2004 Alyce Lomax	Sprint's Wireless Wild Card As wireless loss widens, Wall Street expects a deal with IBM.
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InternetNews January 27, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Reports: SBC Maneuvers For AT&T Buy The regional carrier is looking to raise its profile by buying Ma Bell.
The Motley Fool October 21, 2005 W.D. Crotty	AT&T Has the Right Numbers AT&T surprises Wall Street with strong earnings. It still doesn't make the impending marriage to SBC any better.
InternetNews January 6, 2006 Roy Mark	Verizon Completes MCI Takeover Verizon completed its $8.4 billion purchase of MCI today, creating the nation's second largest telecom carrier behind the new AT&T, which itself is a newly formed merger between the former long distance carrier and SBC.
InternetNews May 21, 2004 Paul Shread	Blue Nile Gets A Rousing Welcome The market for IPOs has been struggling lately, but not so for Blue Nile.
The Motley Fool June 29, 2005 Alyce Lomax	More Deals From SBC The telecom company makes more moves to attempt to steal cable customers. Aggressive initiatives like this one show that picking the winners and losers in telecom is speculative and challenging at best for investors.
The Motley Fool July 12, 2004 Alyce Lomax	Troubles in Telecom During the long and painful process as telecom companies struggle to survive or thrive, some shareholders may not be so lucky.
BusinessWeek February 21, 2005 Steve Rosenbush	Telecom: To Buy Or To Build? Why the industry is deeply divided over the best path to growth.
The Motley Fool April 5, 2004 Rich Smith	Phone Bills Don't (Quite) Lie The FCC is asked to make phone companies clean up their billing procedures.
The Motley Fool July 27, 2004 Alyce Lomax	Squeezed Safeway Slips The California strike and pressure from competitors continue to haunt the grocer. It seems that more time is likely needed before investors can feel "safe" with Safeway.
The Motley Fool June 24, 2004 Bill Mann	AT&T Hangs Up AT&T stops marketing to seven states, saying it can't make money serving customers there.
Managed Care September 2003	Verizon Wants Workers To Pay Part of Premium In yet another instance in which health benefits play a major role in union negotiations, Verizon employees cite that company's plan to make workers pay part of the premium as a major sticking point in talks.
PC World March 2005 Cassavoy & Arar	Manage Calls, E-Mail With One Service Smart but pricey SBC and Verizon services give users a universal inbox and more.
The Motley Fool September 26, 2007 Rich Duprey	GM and Union Kiss and Make Up A quick agreement is hammered out, ending the labor union's two-day strike.
The Motley Fool July 22, 2004 Phil Wohl	Ma Bell Means Business? AT&T focuses on declining business customers -- again. It reported second-quarter earnings that doubled the consensus estimate ($0.14 vs. $0.07 a share), yet shares dropped more than 2%.
InternetNews February 2, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Job Cuts to Provide Bulk of SBC-AT&T Synergies SBC plans to cut nearly 13,000 positions from its payroll after its $16 billion acquisition of AT&T closes in early 2006, the company told analysts Tuesday.
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InternetNews February 14, 2005 Jim Wagner	Verizon Makes Move On MCI Following the SBC-AT&T mega-merger blueprint, Verizon aims for a global enterprise reach in a deal worth $6.7 billion.
The Motley Fool August 30, 2004	Who's in the Dow? Did you realize that the Dow is an average of just 30 companies?
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The Motley Fool March 18, 2004 Ben McClure	BT Group's Upside There is upside potential for the beaten-down British telecom stock.
InternetNews May 9, 2005 Roy Mark	Groups Predict Disastrous Merger Effects A coalition of consumer groups says the proposed mergers between Verizon and MCI and SBC and AT&T will widen the digital divide and slow the rollout of broadband.
The Motley Fool September 28, 2004 Alyce Lomax	Cisco, VoIP Star? As telecoms scramble to provide VoIP, Cisco waits in the wings.
The Motley Fool July 20, 2004 Phil Wohl	RadioShack's Slam Dunk Like its pitchman Shaquille O'Neal, RadioShack has developed some positive momentum of its own, judging by its second-quarter results.
The Motley Fool February 17, 2004 Dave Mock	Cingular Snags AT&T Wireless Cingular Wireless nabs its rival for a cool $41 billion in cash.
The Motley Fool April 1, 2004 Bill Mann	The Dow Makes Some Changes Replacing three firms worth $40 billion with three worth half a trillion makes sense.
The Motley Fool April 25, 2005 W.D. Crotty	SBC Flying Under the Radar The company has another excellent quarter as it builds for the future. This is a stock that is even appropriate for conservative investors looking for a big stock dividend.
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InternetNews June 1, 2005 Colin C. Haley	SBC Offers Bargain-Basement Broadband Pressuring dial-up and cable rivals, SBC will charge new customers $14.95 per month for basic DSL.