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Knowledge@Wharton	AT&T: Expect More Static in the Months to Come The turmoil may cause what was once the world's largest corporation to disappear altogether as parts of the company are spun off or sold off and as consolidation begins to accelerate throughout the telecommunications industry in general...
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InternetNews March 29, 2005 Roy Mark	Supreme Court Questions FCC Cable Modem Regs Cable industry, FCC tell high court it's lawful to deny ISPs access to cable broadband lines.
InternetNews October 27, 2005 Roy Mark	Bell Mergers Sealed on DoJ Approval The U.S. Department of Justice Thursday afternoon approved the SBC-AT&T and Verizon-MCI mergers, requiring only that Verizon and SBC divest portions of certain local fiber-optic network facilities.
Bank Technology News September 2004 Lee Conrad	Communications Networks: Telecom's Future Is in Banks' Hands Retail and investment banks have more demand for information than any other market segment. As a result, corporate data is now telecommunications' main business line.
Knowledge@Wharton	Could Tele-Living Point the Way Out of the Telecom Turmoil? What's the right strategy for a telecom company to follow during these tumultuous times? Joseph Bonocore. author of Commanding Communications: Navigating Emerging Trends in Telecommunications, thinks he has some answers...
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Knowledge@Wharton March 12, 2003	The FCC's Latest Telecom Ruling: Far-Reaching, Yes, But Also Far From Clear A recent vote on deregulation by the Federal Communications Commission left many questions unanswered and none of the players in the telecommunications industry entirely satisfied.
PHONE+ December 22, 2009	What Was the Most Significant Development -- Positive or Negative -- in the Competitive Landscape in the Last Decade? Telecom executives weigh in on good and bad developments among telecom providers.
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InternetNews April 2, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Cable Mulls Its Future Amid Wireless, Free Content A panel of cable execs outline the challenges facing their industry in a brave new world.
InternetNews March 2, 2005 Roy Mark	Telecom Mergers Get House Nod Top House leaders say the proposed Verizon-MCI and SBC-AT&T mergers are moving telecom, Internet in the right direction.
InternetNews April 1, 2004 Roy Mark	Court Refuses to Review FCC Modem Rule Ninth Circuit upholds decision saying cable broadband is subject to common carrier rules.
InternetNews March 15, 2005 Catherine Pickavet	New Working Group Objects to Telecom Mergers Unhappy with the SBC/AT&T, Verizon/MCI mergers, smaller fish in the telecom sea have formed a working group to challenge them.
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The Motley Fool October 19, 2004 Phil Wohl	Sprint Making Growth Strides The telecom services provider is focusing on a more rapidly accelerating asset base. Shares are fairly valued relative to the growth forecast but are reasonably attractive as an income investment.
BusinessWeek February 28, 2005 Yang et al.	The Shifting Telecom Landscape With AT&T and MCI going, the Bells will compete with cable and tech companies.
InternetNews July 15, 2005 Colin C. Haley	Bells' TV Bill Gets New Life A bill to help speed TV-over-fiber rollouts has cleared the Texas Senate, but the window is closing on the legislative session.
InternetNews May 12, 2004 Roy Mark	EarthLink: Telecom Reform Unnecessary Nation's third largest ISP tells Congress it should focus on enforcing current law, while broadband providers Verizon and Comcast argue for new ones.
IEEE Spectrum March 2005	Tech Troubles for Bush In the second Bush administration, the Department of Energy must fill critical positions, the Federal Communications Commission must recover its lost authority, and the Department of Homeland Security must face up to the challenges of cybervandalism and crime.
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InternetNews August 18, 2004 Erin Joyce	Eyes on VoIP, Telcos Propose New Fees New toll fees for wireline phone calls reflect new telecom paradigms, including Voice over IP.
Salon.com June 7, 2002 Jeffrey Benner	Getting a lock on broadband How the FCC is paving the way for a few big companies to control everyone's high-speed Internet access.
The Motley Fool February 27, 2008 Anders Bylund	Google Swims to Tokyo Google sets its sights on the markets that are exploding in the Far East; the company and a consortium of pan-Asian telecom and data-traffic providers have commissioned a new fiber-optic cable between Japan and the West Coast.
InternetNews March 22, 2004	The Price of a Phone Call The cost burden of telecom services is much higher for very small businesses than for large businesses. A SBA study finds that smaller firms pay four times more per employee for local and long distance services than large businesses do.
InternetNews April 20, 2004 Roy Mark	Verizon: Old Rules Slow Broadband Rollout The competitive landscape has changed since 1996, but the law governing carriers hasn't, a Baby Bell exec said.
InternetNews April 12, 2005 Roy Mark	Telecom Reform Not Likely in 2005 National Chamber of Commerce chief predicts Congress not likely to pass legislation this year, including key changes to the Universal Service Fund consumers pay.
InternetNews February 22, 2005 Tim Gray	SBC, AT&T Get the Merger Started SBC, AT&T look to FCC and Justice for $16 billion merger approval.
Fast Company August 2001 John Ellis	Digital Matters How big a problem is the telecom meltdown?
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PHONE+ December 22, 2009 Kelly Teal	Timeline: Key Moments In Telecom, 2000-2009 From 2000 to 2009, this is a look back at the important developments in the telecom industry.
Entrepreneur April 2004 Dian Vujovich	Riding It Out This telecom fund has major staying power.
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InternetNews April 30, 2010	ISPs Urge FCC to Resist Broadband Regulation A band of cable and telecom firms and their lobbying organizations issue a warning to Federal Communications Commission telling it to keep broadband unregulated.
The Motley Fool February 14, 2005 Alyce Lomax	Goodbye, MCI As expected, there's more consolidation in telecom. Verizon and MCI plan to merge in a $6.75 billion deal.
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CFO August 1, 2003 Ronald Fink	Media Critic Veteran deal maker Leo Hindery says it's time to rethink the consolidation of the media and telecom industries.
InternetNews February 22, 2008	Report: U.S. Telecom Growth Slower Than Abroad The U.S. telecommunications industry will grow at a slower rate than the global industry in the coming years as the wireless and wired markets mature, the Telecommunications Industry Association said on Friday.
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