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Wireline telecommunication companies or telcos employ a wide range of unionized workers including engineers, computer programmers, service technicians, sales agents and marketers. All telcos offer Internet services, caller ID, call waiting, call forwarding, voice mail, cable TV, long-distance service, local service and /or wireless communications.

The negative performance of telecom stocks like S & P Integrated telecommunication services reflect a number of factors including the incumbent carriers' declining customer bases in their traditional markets. The 4 regional Bell operating companies (RBOC's) have seen wireless rivals like Verizon communications and SBC communications make a significant entry in local telecommunication markets.

There is every reason to believe that the RBOCs are poised to do to the metropolitan Ethernet services market what they did to the DSL market: Elbow aside the smaller [...]

There's good news and bad news concerning trends in data-services pricing: First, the bad news: Tariff rates for private line and frame relay service have continued to rise over the [...]

The popularity of the World Wide Web, coupled with the strong support given by the Bell Regional Holding Companies (RBOCs), has spurred the extensive use of integrated services digital networks (ISDN). In addition, the RBOCs attributed the popularity of ISDN to efforts to simplify ordering codes and the attractive access rates., Web access has given the technology a jump start, but will it have market staying power? Credit the World Wide Web, RBOCs or looming competition, but 1995 has been a [...]

Spring fever isn't the only thing going around these days. Frame relay fever is breaking out in some sections of the country where metropolitan-based services are generating sales and excitement […]

Innovations in asynchronous communications will help the Bell Regional Holding Companies provide information services in the near future, according to analyst Ron Altman. He discusses how the Baby Bells will grow and profit because of the innovations.

Because of their flexibility, D-4 channel banks have always been dependable for telephone company special service networks. The recent extensive implementation of Advanced D-4 (AD4) technology throughout U S West […]

RBOCs and other telephone companies--in a series of public announcements-- are telling customers that switched multimegabt data service (SMDS) is 'on the doorstep' and a major step to nationwide deployment [...]

Bell Companies Ask For Carte Blanche In Telecom Services The Bell regional holding companies (RHC) last week unveiled a 'go-for-broke' strategy at the 19th congressional hearing on Consent Decree issues. [...]

It's right there in the name. Cells are the defining characteristic of cellular technology. Take them away and you're back to the conventional mobile telephone service of the 1970s. The […]

SPECIAL REGULATORY REPORT: RBOCS STRUGGLE TO OFFER INFORMATION SERVICES The regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs) do not want to miss the boat. As the outlook for interactive video and online [...]

The telecommunications industry, which serves a market of more than $ 200 billion, is in transition as technological advancements and regulatory reforms are driving traditional telecommunication service providers into a competitive environment requiring innovative strategy and financial flexibility.Despite rapid change, traditional voice service remains the sole earner of the incumbent players that have dominated the industry for decades.

A spate of new reports just released by the FCC paints a picture of telecom competition that's promising for the cable companies, mixed for the regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs) [...]

The once-enthusiastic certainty that fiber-optic technology would soon force its way into businesses across the country--capturing the premises market and ousting copper once and for all--seems to be on the [...]

For organizations with multiple sites in downtown business districts, making crosstown connections has always been a challenge. Traditional telephone company 56Kbps and 1.544Mbps digital lines work well in host/terminal environments, […]

New Jersey Bell recently disclosed that it will provide cable TV services to around 38,000 homes in Dover Township, NJ. The move, which came after an FCC decision to permit telephone companies to deliver video dialtone services from a central office, will involve the construction of a fiber-to-the-curb system by FutureVision of America using Fiber Loop Access technologies from BroadBand Technologies over a 10 year period.

Since 1986 US WEST has been providing ISDN services. With COMPASS, a user solution-drivenn program within US WEST, ISDN is playing a major role in supporting data communications applications. COMPASS, […]

Pacific Bell has launched a $100-million upgrade of its Los Angeles area network that will convert analog switches to digital and bring a wide array of new voice and data […]

As presidential elections draw near, and the D.C. circuit court sets legal processes in motion again to dismantle the system of tariffs governing alternative carriers' access to local copper, the [...]

In recent years, the RBOCs have been cagey about their out-of-region plans. In many instances they resemble the kid who empties his pockets to show he has nothing to hide. [...]

Imagine living in a neighborhood of beautiful homes with mile-long driveways. Then imagine that your community association adopts strict bylaws limiting the use of each driveway to red BMWs only. […]

AT&T [T] Tuesday said it expects to offer local phone service to more than half of all U.S. customers by the end of the year if states continue to lower […]

With the exception of a handful of rural Mom & Pop operations, most local phone companies now let consumers choose their own long-distance provider. In fact, today's consumer views being [...]

The RBOCs' allies in Congress propose a bill lifting the ban on ILEC provision of long distance data service. Opponents respond with a bill barring ILEC long distance approval until [...]

A whole lot of CLECs are going to die be fore they get old, and expiring along with them are the big promises they made about providing enterprise customers with [...]

'Telecom providers are embroiled in a desperate battle for the last mile.' THE POLICY BATTLE OVER THE 'LAST MILE'--the lines that connect telecom services to homes and businesses--has become particularly [...]

Poker players know that in every hand they play there ultimately is a moment of truth, the one where they have to decide whether to hold 'em or fold 'em. […]

Several months ago I was working on an affidavit for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice regarding the pending acquisition of Sprint by World-Com. While, from a [...]

Nearly every high-tech company these days is moving at Internet speed. National service providers are ramping up to become one-stop shops with a variety of offerings. The regional Bells also […]

Recent issues of this magazine have heralded the arrival of the BLEC: a reseller who aggregates the voice (and possibly data) traffic of tenants in a multiple-dwelling or office building. […]