That's less than what a customer typically pays GTE or SBC Communications from a wired phone.
Fallen by the wayside are potential suitors Cablevision Systems and SBC Communications .
Subsequent searches turned up similar contracts at Honeywell, IBM, and SBC Communications.
Chevron, Goodyear Tire, Union Carbide and Sears Roebuck were replaced by Microsoft, Intel, SBC Communications and Home Depot.
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The sole rival, SBC Communications, is still barred by federal law from offering the long- distance fiber services that CapRock provides.
The sole rival, SBC Communications, is still barred by federal law from offering the long distance fiber services that CapRock provides.
Already El Paso owns the second-largest fiber network in Houston, with connections to every central office switch operated by regional phone giant SBC Communications.
But thanks to a virtual monopoly on communications, it generates a pretax profit margin of 47%, almost double that of U.S. phone giant SBC Communications.
Other areas to look for yield and value include some of the beaten-down telecom companies such as BellSouth and SBC Communications, as well as REITs--particularly the apartment variety.
The cable industry is aggressively competing with the parent companies of Verizon Wireless-- Verizon Communications and Vodafone--and Cingular--SBC Communications and BellSouth--and it's tough to imagine a tie-up between them.
Published reports say that Apple and Motorola will announce an agreement with wireless carrier Cingular, a joint venture between BellSouth and SBC Communications, and will introduce the phone that day.
Today's gentleman caller is No. 2 U.S. regional phone carrier SBC Communications (nyse: SBC - news - people ), a 13-state telco with national and international aspirations.
With the telecom industry in the middle of a merger frenzy, Qwest could look to get itself acquired, perhaps by SBC Communications (nyse: SBC - news - people ).
If you had shares in the Bell system before divestiture and held them through the myriad mergers, subsequent divestitures and stock splits, you'd now have stakes in 11 telecommunications firms, including such performers as Lucent Technologies, BellSouth and SBC Communications.
Dell Computer (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ), SBC Communications (nyse: SBC - news - people ) and Belo (nyse: BLC - news - people ), have all made use of the technique, according to a Texas House research organization report.
Final tallies of supremacy may have to wait until the merger processes are complete, but one thing is certain: Forsee's combo telecom has vaulted into the lofty elite of No. 2 provider Verizon Wireless--a joint venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone--and the market's top dog, the JV of SBC Communications and BellSouth, Cingular.
NextWave is reportedly close to a deal with Cingular, a joint venture between SBC Communications (nyse: SBC - news - people ) and BellSouth (nyse: BLS - news - people ), to license 20% of the wireless spectrum space in controls in 93 of the top 100 U.S. markets.
That will put it close behind No. 1 Cingular Wireless --a joint venture between SBC Communications (nyse: SBC - news - people ) and BellSouth (nyse: BLS - news - people )--and No. 2 Verizon Wireless --a joint venture of Verizon Communications (nyse: VZ - news - people ) and Vodafone Group (nyse: VOD - news - people ).
SBC's competitors--particularly current number one regional carrier Verizon Communications (nyse: VZ - news - people )--are likely to lobby hard against approval.
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