Southwestern Bell's action stymies rural school interactive video plan

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Southwestern Bell Corp claims that another video cable company cannot supply a Kansas school district with video cable because of government regulation. Southwestern Bell quoted a price of $200,000 for a fiber optic video line to be used for educational purposes, but the school system went to Pioneer Telephone Co and received a quote for a $45,000 coaxial cable implementation. Southwestern Bell claims Pioneer Telephone does not have permission from the state of Kansas to provide video service. Southwestern also holds that government regulation of Bell operating companies restricts them from providing cheaper services. Bell operating companies are forbidden from engaging in long-distance service, making phone equipment, and owning information services.

Political activity, Advertising, SBC, Deregulation, Regional Bell Operating Companies, Southwestern Bell Corp., Video Systems, Bell Regional Holding Companies, Rural schools, Pioneer Telephone Association Inc.

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Research networks in Europe and U.S. set up data link

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A partnership connecting major research computer networks on both sides of the Atlantic with a high-speed fiber-optic data link is announced. This project connects the National Science Foundation Network (NSFnet) and the European Academic Supercomputer Initiative Network (EASInet). Such a linkage, together with planned increases in transmission speeds, means the start of a new era of international high-speed research collaboration. As one executive puts it, the new system means better use of our 'most precious resource: the time of our scientists.' Previously, researchers could communicate around the world using satellite links, but trans-Atlantic fiber-optics will deliver data faster and clearer.

Noncommercial research organizations, International aspects, Research, Telecommunications, European Organization for Nuclear Research, United States. National Science Foundation, Telecommunications transmission technologies, Cornell University, Telecommunication, Networks, Scientific Research, Data Communications, NSFNET (Computer network), Organisation Europeenne pour la Recherche Nucleaire, EASInet (computer network)

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MCI, British Telecom plan to construct trans-Atlantic cable to meet demand

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MCI Communications Corp and British Telecommunications PLC plan to construct a trans-Atlantic, high-capacity fiber optics cable that will be in operation by 1993. The project will be managed by a consortium of international telephone carriers, which will design, build and operate the undersea cable. The cable will consist of state-of-the-art fiber optics technology that will be capable of carrying the equivalent of 150,000 simultaneous conversations per fiber pair; transmission rates will be as high as 2.4G-bps. The project, which has an estimated cost of between $400 million and $500 million, is the first one that MCI has taken a lead in initiating.

Telecommunications services industry, Telephone companies, British Telecommunications PLC, MCI Communications Corp., MCIC, Telephone Company

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