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	Report: FCC may allow a Baby Bell to accquire WorldCom
		Baby Bells are the regional local telephone providers formed by the breakup of AT&T. "There's been a lot written and said in the last couple weeks (about the effects) of the demise of WorldCom, especially for Internet traffic and e-mail.
		The FCC has the authority to approve or deny proposed mergers in the telecommunications industry, so any Baby Bell looking to snap up WorldCom would need to go through the approval process and prove to the commission that the merger is in the public interest, the spokesman said.
		Currently, none of the Baby Bell companies have met the Section 271 requirements in all of the states in their regions, Brecher said, but a few Bells are coming close.
	www.networkworld.com /news/2002/0715bbellwcom.html (726 words)

	Dawn of the Big Bells
		The Baby Bells seemed to be stuck with a declining business, and a heavily regulated one at that.
		The Baby Bells began life in 1984 as the unwanted offspring of the biggest antitrust battle in American history.
		SBC - or Southwestern Bell, as it was known in 1984 - was the runt of the litter.
	www.thestandard.com /article/0,1902,23871,00.html (683 words)

	Regional Bell Operating Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Southwestern Bell Corporation, which changed its name to SBC Communications in 1995, acquired Pacific Telesis in 1997, former independent Bell System franchise not part of divestiture, SNET in 1998, and Ameritech in 1999.
		In 1997, Bell Atlantic was acquired by NYNEX (taking the Bell Atlantic name), which later, in 2000, merged with GTE, the largest independent telephone company, to form Verizon.
		Bell Canada was divested from ATandT in 1956 and not part of the 1984 agreement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baby_bells (658 words)

	Bell, GTE in $53 Billion Merger
		Bell Atlantic, No. 1 of the five regional Bell phone companies, has agreed to buy GTE, the largest independent local and long distance phone operator in the United States, in a stock deal valued at US$52.8 billion, the companies said this morning.
		Bell Atlantic's fiber optic network provides service from the United Kingdom to Japan, but the company needs a link with a foreign partner that would give it a broader customer base and an international brand name, analysts said.
		Bell Atlantic and GTE also provide overlapping wireless service in several states, and Bell Atlantic is part of the PrimeCo Personal Communications wireless alliance, which is building a wireless service in other areas in which GTE offers cellular service.
	www.wired.com /news/business/0,1367,14038,00.html (759 words)

	A Look At The Baby Bells
		Bell Atlantic (NYSE BEL) is the largest of the Baby Bells.
		Bell Atlantic serves the New England, "East Coast" area from Maine to Virginia.
		Bell South has been trading in the $60 range which is close to its 52 week high.
	www.hedge-hog.com /sub/babybells.html (1122 words)

	Consumer Federation of America : Press Release
		Baby Bell Argument 1: Competition would be stimulated if local incumbents were allowed to enter the long distance market before new market entrants have established access to the existing telephone network.
		Baby Argument 3: Withdrawing access to UNEs will force competitors to make investments in their own facilities and networks.
		The study points out that competitors need unbundled network elements in order to achieve a national scale and contend with the Baby Bells, who have grown dramatically in size since the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
	www.consumerfed.org /releases2.cfm?filename=pr10.07.03.txt (756 words)

	Bell Crafts for Baby - Associated Content
		Small bells, usually used for Christmas crafts, can be found in sizes from teeny-tiny to the size of a quarter or so.
		It’s very important that the bell toy you make won’t lose the bells - baby would choke on one of the metal objects, so be very careful with this craft.
		After stringing the bells all in a row, squirt a little bit of liquid cement into the thread opening on the back of the bell.
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/58824/bell_crafts_for_baby.html (643 words)

	Comedy Central: Movies - Tom Bell - Biography
		Bell then fell in with the 'kitchen sink' school of filmmakers, such as Bryan Forbes, Tony Richardson and Karel Reisz, who at the time were single-handedly defining the British New Wave with the 'Angry Young Man' movement.
		Bell appeared in several of the more noteworthy cinematic productions during this time, including The Kitchen (1960), The Concrete Jungle (1960), and The L-Shaped Room (1962).
		Bell teamed up with former schoolmate Whitelaw in Peter Medak's The Krays (1990), as a low-level gangster knifed to death at the hands of thug Reginald Kray (Ronald Kemp).
	www.comedycentral.com /movies/person/4587/bio.jhtml (532 words)

	Baby Bell swallows Mama Bell, SBC buyout AT&T
		The separated entities were formed into seven regional operating companies, commonly known as the Baby Bells, of which SBC Communications is one.
		The surviving Bells, as the offshoot are known, have been doing rather well over the years.
		SBC itself is the merger of three Baby Bells.
	www.earthtimes.org /mobile/1462.xhtml (496 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Prior to the divestiture of AT&T in 1984, a Baby Bell was one of the 22 Bell Operating Companies owned by AT&T. Collectively, along with AT&T Long Lines, Western Electric and Bell Telephone Laboratories, these companies were considered the Bell System
		The term 'Baby Bell' was used within the telephone industry to differentiate an operating company from the parent corporation (AT&T), known as "Ma Bell".
		The press started using the term "Baby Bell" to refer to these regionals as entities unto themselves, so the usage has became blurred over the years.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Baby_Bell (187 words)

	broadband help » Forums » » To honest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cable is kicking Baby Bell a** in broadband, and for a number of good reasons...
		The typical whining Baby Bell attitude that they own the right to control and profit from all voice communication is horribly offensive to those of us who didn't grow up nursing at the teat of guaranteed return on (wildly excessive over-) investment.
		Now the whining Baby Bells are reaping the benefit of their refusals to build--but the kid who holds his breath until he gets his way sometimes turns blue--and sometimes passes out.
	www.broadbandreports.com /forum/remark,7588310~mode=flat (2158 words)

	Free Press : Baby Bell antitrust lawsuit is allowed to proceed
		Baby Bell antitrust lawsuit is allowed to proceed
		NEW YORK — A federal appeals court Monday said an antitrust lawsuit against several of the nation’s largest telecommunication providers over whether they conspired to exclude competitors from their geographic markets should be allowed to go forward.
		The circuit remanded the case to the district court, which had dismissed the case earlier for failure to state a claim for which relief can be granted.
	www.freepress.net /news/11674 (577 words)

	Baby Bell Heavyweight Jumps Into the VoIP Ring - Voxilla
		SBC has announced it will start rolling out VoIP service to residential customers “early next year” and the company expects analog phone users to convert to digital telephone service in large numbers as it adds fiber to the home, a project that is expected to take two to three years.
		SBC, the second largest “Baby Bell,” behind Verizon, has been conducting a trial with hundreds of residential customers in Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago and San Antonio over the past month.
		This could mean that, for the first time, SBC will be competing for customers with other Baby Bells in regions it does not currently serve.
	voxilla.com /voxilla-stories/voxilla-stories/baby-bell-heavyweight-jumps-into-the-voip-ring-362.html (876 words)

	AlterNet: MediaCulture: The New Media Monopoly
		Bell Labs, the R&D arm of AT&T was the jewel of the high tech world, inventing everything from the UNIX computer operating system, to the transistor, the laser, and cell phone technology among a very long list.
		With the breakup of the old 'Ma Bell', the local telcos were spun off and began shedding workers by the thousands and buying cheaper (quality and price) equipment from overseas makers.
		Bell Labs R&D was cut back and focused more directly on telecom, especially after it was spun off as Lucent Technologies.
	www.alternet.org /mediaculture/33289 (2708 words)

	Baby Bell Poised for AT&T Bid - Technology - RedOrbit
		Such a deal would likely spell the end for AT&T, the once- ubiquitous "Ma Bell" which was broken into a patchwork of "Baby Bell" local telecoms companies in 1984.
		AT&T's history dates back 120 years to the invention of the telephone but like other long-distance companies such as MCI its revenues have been battered as the Baby Bells have begun competing head-to-head in their markets.
		The company held unsuccessful merger talks with BellSouth in 2003, but the Baby Bell walked away after seeing AT&T's revenue and growth potential shrink daily.
	www.redorbit.com /news/display?id=122777 (322 words)

	American Journalism Review
		Even before they have spent their first dollar, the Baby Bells have been convicted by the newspaper industry of monopolistic, unfair and anticompetitive behavior in the electronic-information business.
		The campaign against the Baby Bells has moved to Congress, with the newspaper industry arguing that the unrestrained entry of the phone companies into electronic publishing could kill competition and diversity.
		Southwestern Bell is among the Baby Bell companies admitting to passing on lobbying expenses to customers rather than shareholders, in violation of telecommunications regulations.
	www.ajr.org /Article.asp?id=88 (882 words)

	Can video relieve Baby Bell ills? \| Tech News on ZDNet
		A string of deals between Baby Bells and satellite TV companies offers a clear signal that local phone companies are scrambling to add video services in a bid to fend off cable rivals.
		After the Bells funneled a half-billion dollars into Tele-TV over two years, they receded from the project to refocus their priorities in the new, loosened regulatory environment shepherded in by the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
		Although the deals between the Bells and satellite providers could be a temporary stopgap to buy time for fiber, the alliances are headed in the right direction, according to analysts.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-9584_22-5069926.html (1461 words)

	11/29/99 BW Online--Street Wise: Covad: Giant Steps for "the Next Baby Bell"
		The problem with providing DSL service is that you have to reach your customer via local phone lines, which you have to lease from their owners -- the Baby Bells.
		Second will be a simple fact of life: "The Baby Bells don't have a good track record when they aren't operating an oligarchy," says Bear Stearns' Henry.
		That's lower than current Baby Bell margins, but it isn't too shabby for a company that didn't even exist a few years ago and that went public last January.
	www.businessweek.com /@@*vR6lWcQJnT0agYA/bwdaily/dnflash/nov1999/sw91129.htm (1030 words)

	baby - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		As a term of endearment for one's lover it is attested perhaps as early as 1839, certainly by 1901; its popularity perhaps boosted by baby vamp "a popular girl," student slang from c.1922.
		Baby boom coined 1941; derivative baby-boomer (member of the one that began 1945) first recorded 1974.
		a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk; "the baby began to cry again"; "she held the baby in her arms"; "it sounds simple, but when you have your own baby it is all so different"
	dictionary.reference.com /browse/baby (609 words)

	Baby Bell buying AirTouch? - Jan. 1, 1999
		The merger would transform the regional Baby Bell into the second-largest wireless company, behind ATandT Corp. (T), said Jeffrey Kagan, an independent telecommunications industry analyst.
		"Bell Atlantic gains, first, and foremost, a national footprint for wireless, and this will enable it to match up against ATandT and Sprint PCS, which are the two other national wireless players," said telecommunications analyst Eric Strumingher of PaineWebber.
		In July, Bell Atlantic said it may have to restructure the partnership because of its proposed GTE merger.
	money.cnn.com /1999/01/01/deals/bellatlantic (556 words)

	Ma Bell's Retirement
		For most of the 20th century, the Bell System, as AT&T was known, controlled all long-distance telephone service in the U.S., and the vast majority of local traffic.
		The Bell System was broken up in 1984, when AT&T was forced to spin off its local service to seven regional "Baby Bell" companies, including what is now SBC.
		And cable TV firms have stolen a march on the Bells in broadband connections, with some two-thirds of the market.
	www.heritage.org /Press/Commentary/ed021905a.cfm (650 words)

	SBC to buy AT&T, but analysts question value of the deal - Jan. 31, 2005
		In April 2004, AT&T was dropped from the Dow Jones industrial average, signifying its lessening importance to the nation's economy.
		It was replaced by another so-called "Baby Bell," Verizon Communications (Research).
		AT&T announced last July it was basically pulling out of the consumer long distance business that had been a core of its business since the court-ordered split-up of AT&T in 1984, and it took a $11.4 billion charge reflecting the reduced value of those assets in the third quarter last year.
	money.cnn.com /2005/01/31/technology/sbc_att_deal/index.htm (1146 words)

	Online NewsHour: A Growing Baby Bell -- December 22, 1999
		As you know, the Bell companies have been prohibited from going into long distance until they can demonstrate that their local markets are open for competitors.
		Congress decided in 1996, when they revamped the telecommunications laws, that the Bell companies would be allowed in long distance but only if they opened their markets.
		This is a process that involves a partnership between the state and the federal government to work with the Bell company and the competitors to make sure these systems are in place.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/business/july-dec99/kennard_11-22.html (1497 words)

	Jobs threatened as Baby Bell gobbles up AT&T
		Founded almost 130 years ago when the telephone was invented, ATandT grew in arrogance and comfort, confident that its monopolistic control of the local and long distance phone companies and its subsi diaries--the Baby Bells and Western Elec tric, which assembled phones and other parts--would assure its place as the foremost telecommunications leader.
		SBC Communications was one of those Baby Bells, known as Southwestern Bell in 1984.
		"Their legendary research arm, Bell Laboratories, was responsible for some of the 20th century's greatest inventions, from the transistor to the laser, and fielded seven Nobel Prize winners." Unfor tunately for ATandT, Bell Labor atories was spun off to become Lucent Technologies.
	www.workers.org /2005/us/mergers_0224 (1218 words)

	San Diego Source > News > High court considers Baby Bell case
		The suit alleged that the incumbent local telephone companies, or "Baby Bells," illegally conspired to prevent competition by excluding new local phone companies from their territories and agreeing not to compete against each other in each other's markets.
		Before the case went to trial, the Baby Bells appealed to the Supreme Court, and Justice Stephen Breyer noted that under the standard upheld by the appeals court, "you can go sue half the firms in the economy."
		The 1996 Telecommunications Act allowed those Baby Bells to offer long-distance calling, in addition to local service, in exchange for allowing competitors access to their networks.
	www.sddt.com /News/article.cfm?SourceCode=20061130crb (678 words)

	PHONE PRANKS \| TIME
		AT&T was granted the long-distance franchise, and seven Baby Bells were created to run local phone services around the country.
		Anyone who held on to those shares, along with all the new Baby Bell shares and their spin-offs, and reinvested all dividends would today own shares in 11 companies and have a package worth $58,396, according to a study by the brokerage Edward D. Jones.
		SBC is the old Baby Bell Southwestern Bell plus the Baby Bell it recently acquired, Pacific Telesis.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,986499,00.html (730 words)

	CD Baby: BELL THE CAT: Songs From The Wild (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		‘bell the cat’s’ music video, ‘Untamed Heart’ and the interview we included on the DVD will be aired on Berkeley’s Public Access Channel on Monday March 5 and Thursday March 8 at 11 p.m.
		Bell The Cat's sound is a mix of alternative pop, blues and rock.
		I can't wait to experience bell the cat live in person because I imagine it to be one of the most dynamic and entertaining concerts I have been to yet.
	www.cdbaby.com /bellthecat (883 words)

	What Baby Bell Should You Own? -- 10/19/1999
		It's a big week for the Baby Bells, as four of them report earnings this week: Bell Atlantic on Wednesday, Bell South on Wednesday, GTE on Thursday, and USWest on Friday.
		Bell Atlantic will continue to post impressive numbers in the future and should be the first Baby Bell allowed into long distance.
		The Baby Bell has a need to bulk up and Global's under sea fiber optic network would be a great addition.
	www.cnsnews.com /ViewBusiness.asp?Try=No&Page=\Business\archive\1998-2000\ECO19991019b.html (745 words)

	Business: Baby Bell's Miami landing rings in phone competition
		Baby Bell's Miami landing rings in phone competition
		Almost five agonizingly slow years after Congress passed a sweeping law to revitalize the telecommunications industry, Florida's local residential phone market is poised to get its first dose of significant competition.
		In a state long dominated by such local residential phone monopolies as BellSouth and Verizon, a new regional Baby Bell just arrived.
	www.sptimes.com /News/101800/Business/Baby_Bell_s_Miami_lan.shtml (727 words)

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