An oops in Time Warner's battle for Internet

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Time Warner has been caught using their employees as intelligence agents in return for monetary incentives. The employees were told that if they made the attempt to receive Internet service from their competitors, Southwestern Bell, and then cancelled the service if it went through, reported the information back to Time Warner, they would receive $100. A few of Time Warners employees reported it to Southwestern Bell and they responded by filing a request for an investigation with the FCC and the Texas Public Utilities Commission.

Diversified Companies, Usage, United States. Federal Communications Commission, Time Warner Inc., Market share, SBC, TWX, Workers, Business intelligence, Competitive intelligence, Texas. Public Utility Commission, Southwestern Bell Corp.

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AT&T clears step in bid to purchase a cable TV giant; F.C.C. ruling still ahead; Justice Dept. backs MediaOne merger that would control a third of U.S. market

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AT and T Corp.'s planned acquisition of MediaOne Group was approved by the U.S. Justice Dept. The Federal Communications Commission has yet to make its decision on the merger. If the merger is approved, both companies must sell all interests in cable Internet service Road Runner. The merger will create a company with better than one-third of the US market in online telephone service, cable TV and high-speed Internet access.

Asset sales & divestitures, Acquisitions & mergers, Cable Television Systems, Cable Networks, Cable and other pay TV services, Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Company acquisition/merger, AT&T Corp., T, Cable television broadcasting industry, Cable television, MediaOne Group Inc., UMG

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MCI FACES INQUIRY FOR FRAUD ON FEES FOR LONG DISTANCE

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MCI Worldcom, which is currently trying to emerge from bankruptcy, is now facing an investigation of whether it defrauded local telecom firms by not paying proper access tariffs for usage on phone lines throughout the 1990s. The federal inquiry is focusing on whether MCI Worldcom disguised long distance calls as local ones in order to avoid paying the access tariff to local carriers. The amount of damages would be in the hundreds of millions if MCI were held liable.

COMMUNICATION, Communications, Broadcasting and Telecommunications, Commodity & service prices, Long Distance Telephone Svc, Prices and rates, Long distance telephone services, Communications industry, WCOM, Long-distance telephone service, MCI Inc., Company pricing policy, Access charges (Telephone), Telephone access charges

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