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The Federal Communications Commission, in a major ruling, voted Thursday to help clear the way for AT&T; and the former Bell System companies to offer their customers an array of new services from voice messages to home burglar alarms.
May 16, 1986
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Oct. 13, 2008
L.A. Now
Dec. 31, 2012
Technology and the Internet
MCI Communications Corp. and News Corp. on Wednesday announced a joint venture to provide on-line services and said British Telecommunications may take a stake too.
Aug. 10, 1995
The Baby Bell regional phone companies are still a few years and many regulatory and legal hurdles away from offering such sophisticated information services as home shopping and banking, “electronic Yellow Pages” and stock market quotes.
July 27, 1991
Arden Realty Inc. has launched a division called NextEdge to provide an array of real estate consulting services to the company’s tenants--and to tenants in buildings owned by other landlords.
May 23, 2000
America’s banks are having to face fierce competition from a new kind of financial services company: the “non-bank bank.”
April 17, 1991
With collective revenues of $80 billion a year and a customer list that includes most of the nation’s homes and businesses, the seven regional Baby Bell telephone companies have long been viewed as the 800-pound gorillas of the information age.
Nov. 10, 1991
In the heady days of the personal computer boom, pundits predicted that people would soon begin getting their news and other information on a screen rather than on a page.
Sept. 3, 1989