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Since the mid-1990s, telecommunications companies have been sprouting like mushrooms across the United States, seeking inroads to compete with Southwestern Bell and the other regional Bell operating companies. As of [...]

SAN ANTONIO LONG-DISTANCE COMPANIES Ranked by number of local employees Name Number of Breakdown: Address local full-time/ Telephone, Fax (Year est. locally) employees Part-time 1. AT&T 1,050 DND 10999 I-10 [...]

LONG-DISTANCE COMPANIES SERVING HOUSTON (Ranked by Number of Houston-Area Employees) Last Name of Company Year's Address Rank Rank Telephone 1 Not Ranked Southwestern Bell 6500 W. Loop South Bellaire 77401 [...]

Cutthroat competition characterizes the wireless game of 'Survivor' In many respects Houston is a mirror to the wireless world. Most of the major players have entered the local market in [...]

HOUSTON -- Driven by Internet growth and telecommunications deregulation, the Houston real estate industry last year saw a new wave of product explode onto the market. But few have signed [...]

STEMMONS CORRIDOR -- More than half of the existing office space in the Metroplex is in the Class B or C market. According to Calvin Hull, senior director at Cushman [...]

LARGEST METROPLEX LONG-DISTANCE TELEPHONE COMPANIES RANKED BY NUMBER OF LOCAL EMPLOYEES Local/ total Service employees/ area/ Name Telephone local calling Rank Address Fax offices areas [1] 1. MCI Worldcom 7,000/ [...]

LARGEST METROPLEX LOCAL TELEPHONE COMPANIES RANKED BY NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES Number of full-time Number employees of Name Telephone 1999/ Metroplex Rank Address Fax 1998 access lines 1. Southwestern Bell 800-792-8353 [...]

Earlier this month, America Online purchased Time Warner for $183 million -- the biggest buyout in the history of business. Time Warner's cable system gives AOL the infrastructure it needs [...]

GST Telecommunications Inc. (Vancouver, WA) announced further expansion of its western regional presence through an agreement with e.spire Communications Inc. (Annapolis Junction, MD) to add a metropolitan area network in [...]

With the one of the largest concentrations of telecommunications companies in the country, Richardson's Telecom Corridor would appear to be a product of careful, long-range planning and intricate coordination among [...]

Portable toll-free numbers will set customers free-and telephone companies are readying their nets Long-distance telephone companies are gearing up to capitalize on what they're hailing as the biggest thing since [...]

Houston may be the proving ground for long distance companies attempting to break into the equal access market. Currently, long distance customers who have not chosen a 'primary carrier' are defaulted to AT and T. The FCC will rule on this 'default allocation' process on June 2.

Houston's 1411 Co. provides directory assistance and electronic advertising. By offering directory assistance free it makes money from its advertisers. As a competitor of the Yellow Pages, 1411 has forced the Yellow Pages to change its advertising slogans. Offering services in other cities will depend on needed capital.