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October 27, 2000, Friday, Late Edition -
Final
SECTION: Section C; Page 8; Column
4; Business/Financial Desk
LENGTH: 148 words
HEADLINE: TECHNOLOGY BRIEFING: TELECOMMUNICATIONS;
SBC MOVES ON LONG DISTANCE
BYLINE: By Seth
Schiesel
BODY:
SBC Communications Inc., which
is known to most of its customers as Ameritech, Southwestern Bell or Pacific
Bell, asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to sell
long-distance service to its customers in Kansas and Oklahoma. The
Telecommunications Act of 1996 allows local phone companies to
enter the long-distance market on a state-by-state basis as they convince the
F.C.C. that they have opened their local networks in those states. So far,
Verizon Communications Inc. has been allowed to offer long distance in New York
and SBC in Texas. SBC is known as an aggressive company, and yesterday's
application was an aggressive regulatory move. There is less local phone
competition in Kansas and Oklahoma than in either New York or Texas, so the
commission's approval could set a new and potentially lower bar for the other
Bells to clear. Seth Schiesel (NYT)
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