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This Baby Bell Wants to Get Out of Diapers
"They’re early," he says. "AT&T does have the cable networks to offer local phone service over those lines, but it’s a few years away from actually happening. And the lines the Bells have opened up to competition still carry such fees that a long-distance company that uses them can’t offer competitive rates, leaving Bell Atlantic’s home base of New York, for all practical purposes, a one-company market." Reality, however, doesn’t have lobbyists; Bell Atlantic’s have for years been bending over backward to convince New York regulators (on whose go-ahead the FCC’s approval depends) that they’re ready, willing and legally able to wade into the long-distance fray. On their side is increasing political pressure from Congress for the 1996 act to start getting results; against them are the AT&Ts and the MCIs and the Sprints, who are having enough trouble with each other without having to worry about a new kid with local clout. Better plan for the worst, fellas; where Bell Atlantic goes and the chances look pretty good there are four more Baby Bells just aching to follow.
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