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SBC Lets Ameritech Sell Long-Distance Service in Illinois, Ohio, Other States.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2003
By Vikas Bajaj, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 15--The ugly duckling of SBC Communications Inc.'s brood will take a big step Wednesday toward what the company hopes is a metamorphosis into a swan.
Federal regulators are set to let the company's Midwestern division formerly known as Ameritech sell long-distance service in the last four of 13 states SBC operates local-phone networks in.
The approvals in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin, which come a month after Michigan, caps 4 tough years for the five-state division. Since San Antonio-based SBC acquired Ameritech in 1999, the unit has endured in turns a service-quality crisis, acrimonious relations with state authorities and aggressive...
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