AT&T accuses Ameritech of charging unfair prices to resell local services

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AT&T has charged Ameritech with setting unreasonably high prices for companies considering reselling Ameritech's services. Ameritech owns the network that supplies telephone service to the Chicago area. AT&T would buy some of the local services, then resell them under the AT&T brand. By acting as a reseller, AT&T would avoid the expense of setting up its own local network. Ameritech is offering AT&T a 6% to 8% discount on its typical retail rates, but AT&T says it needs a larger discount in order to make a profit from the deal. Ameritech is willing to make AT&T an offer that would include a 20% discount, but the agreement would require that AT&T commit to a high-volume, long-term contract. Ameritech has similar contracts that require a five-year commitment. AT&T says that five years would be too long in the rapidly changing telecommunications business.

AT&T Corp., Contract agreement, AIT, Ameritech Corp.

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AT&T, Bombay company plan to bid jointly to provide services in India

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AT&T and Aditya V. Birla Group are planning a joint bid to offer telephone and cellular communications services in India. The current alliance of the companies has been formed to study the possibility of offering services in India, and if the companies can get licenses to operate in that country, it is likely that they will also form an operating joint venture. The first goal will be to provide basic services in several states, but the companies will be waiting to see if the Indian government will allow privately-owned and foreign-owned companies to offer other services such as enhanced communications and data communications. The government has already permitted companies to bid for licenses to provide cellular telephone services in most of the country and will issue tenders for basic service for most of the country in Jan 1995.

Laws, regulations and rules, Joint ventures, Smart phone, Smart phones, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., Aditya Birla Management Corporation Ltd., Government Regulation, Cooperative Agreements

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Microsoft joins MCI-BT to sell intranet services

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British Telecommunications (BT), which recently acquired MCI Communications, has enlisted Microsoft's help in its effort to offer international businesses intranet services. Microsoft will gain a mammoth distribution outlet for its intranet software, which will aid the company in its competition with market rival Netscape Communications. Intranets are among the most profitable segments of the Internet market, an industry in which such industry giants as IBM, AT&T, and Sprint are competing for market share. The $22 billion merger between BT and MCI is partly motivated by the global demand for advanced data-transmission services. BT and MCI are already providing Internet-access services through their Concert joint venture.

Prepackaged software, Software Publishers, Communication Software Pkgs, Computer software industry, Software industry, Software, Microsoft Corp., British Telecommunications PLC, MSFT, Telecommunications software, Intranets, Intranet, Cooperative agreement for product distribution

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