Later this summer, cable provider Cablevision is expected to roll out voice over IP services, which will serve as a kick in the pants for the regional Bell operating companies to expand their ...

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State regulators are banding together in a last-ditch effort to influence a looming federal ruling about whether they can keep the tools they have for promoting local phone competition. Eighty ...

MANHASSET, N.Y. — Concerned that the regional Bell operating companies are starting to look like unregulated monopolies, a trio of congressmen have introduced bills that would subject the RBOCs to ...

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Telecommunications legislation passed by the U.S. Congress in 1996. Although it covers many aspects of the field, the most controversial has been the deregulation of local phone service, allowing ...

Nobody likes a whiner. But the DSL providers acted like one anyway. And now they’re paying the price. Over the years, a number of executives at the regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs) stated ...

Covad is also releasing Qwest from a contract that required Qwest to buy Covad services with an estimated value of $8.8 million, according to Covad. Depending on the success of the migration, Covad ...

Some have described the Regional Bell Operating Companies as "glaciers" because they are slow to innovate, but once started, nearly impossible to stop. Five years ago these RBOC companies lived up to ...