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As customers go, so go suppliers--and when those customers are the RBOCs, a whole lot of suppliers get going. Thus, while PON technology reached the field in North America long [...]

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 [...]

The first two years of the digital era have been rife with dire prophecies of the impending bloody war between cable companies and telcos over the (putative) spoils of interactive [...]

Amid all of the hoopla in Washington these days over telecommunications deregulation, the Bell regional holding companies are champing at the bit to rush into the battle for long-distance customers. […]

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 […]

Two new digital telecommunications methods used for verification of credit cards by retail establishments are examined. Digital Data Voice Over (DDOV) and Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), which both reduce response time to four to five seconds, are not being widely accepted by stores because the services are not easily available and are expensive to implement. The popularity and rapid growth of the dial-up service, Feature Group B, also known 950 service, which requires 10-12 seconds to get a response, has also hampered the growth of DDOV and ISDN.

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 […]

Few people within the industry realized the significance of the FCC's decision in June that required the LECs to abandon the current interstate switched-access scheme by early next year. As [...]

the signing of a Centrex contract should mark the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship between a customer and a local exchange carrier. In today's complex and competitive world, […]

Good isn't good enough anymore Today's users demand feature-flexible communications systems that deliver top-notch services over highly reliable networks. And don't kid yourself--these savvy shoppers what to get the best […]

RBOc Update: The Opening Gateways Imagine a one-stop online shop where you could select from a virtually-unlimited number of services--local as well as national and international, consumer as well as […]

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 [...]

When Indiana first jumped on the state lottery bandwagon by introducing scratch-off lottery cards in 1989, no one at Indiana Bell was allowed to play. Overzealous legislators, in their effort […]

Do you know the way to SMDS? The Bell operating companies know exactly what their customers want: to be able to interconnect their local area networks (LANs) and transfer digital […]

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 [...]

A number of Bell regional holding companies have begun offering Internet connections despite questions concerning the legality of providing end-to-end direct long distance access. Pacific Telesis, for instance, has established Pacific Bell Internet Services Inc. in May 1995 to serve the California market while Ameritech is offering access at 56 kbps and 1.544 Mbps for businesses, and mix-and-match data broad services for schools., In 1995, RBOCs decided the Net was for real. Now their goal is to make it profitable. Whether it's electronic commerce, customer communications or networking in the film industry, the [...]

Executive Summary: The important Information Highway debate doesn't need a controversy over 'redlined' markets. Companies must disprove such accusations before discussions expand into a clash over universal service definitions. Regional [...]

Executive Summary: After years of frustration and debate at committee levels, telecommunications legislation likely will be debated in the House of Representatives soon after Easter recess, while begins this week. [...]

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, […]

Phone companies are turning to communications and marketing When the playing field opened for phone companies to expand into the information services business, the whoosh you heard was the regional [...]

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 […]

Nine of the nation's major cellular carriers last week vowed support for a new mobile data standard under development by IBM that includes nationwide roaming. The new 'CelluPlan II' scheme [...]