Clammers and A.T.&T. battle under the sea and in the courts

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Clammers and AT&T both need to use parts of the ocean floor for their business, and both companies have taken legal action to protect themselves. The companies are suing one another as part of the ongoing fight for government protection. Clammers use equipment that dredges up clams on the ocean floor. AT&T has been burying cables under the ocean floor for its transcontinental telephone connections. Clammers are required to dredge at least one mile from the charted phone lines. AT&T claims that some clammers come closer than one mile because the catch can be substantially better when harvesting new territory. AT&T is suing for $3.5 million because some of its wires were torn by clammers. The clammers are suing AT&T because some of the clammers' equipment was broken due to exposed underwater cables. Clammers claim that AT&T's equipment has drifted from the charted positions and that AT&T should remove unused cables. The Gifford Marine Co of Pleasantville, NJ, is at the center of the legal controversy.

Electronic computers, Shellfish, Cases, T, Fish industry, Fisheries, Submarine cables, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., Legal Issues, Court Cases, Cables, Submarine, Gifford Marine Co.

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Israel loosens telephone monopoly's grip; local phone and Internet service are opened to private investors

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Israel's communications minister, Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, has decided to deregulate local Internet and telephone services in Israel. For the first time, Bezeq will face competition in Isreal's telecommunication services market. The Israeli governmnet has decided to proceedwith auctions of new telecommunications licences for high-speed Internet services and local telephone service.

Israel, Government domestic functions, Deregulation, Bezeq - The Israel Telecommunication Corporation Ltd.

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SingTel's chief defends Optus purchase

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Lee Hsien Yang says Singapore Telecommunications's winning bid for Cable and Wireless Optus was fair. Acquisition of Optus will give SingTel a smoothly-run concern in a market nearly four times the size of its own, but experts say the Australian telecom market is highly competitve and limited, with limited potential.

Australia, COMMUNICATION, Communications, Broadcasting and Telecommunications, Singapore, Management, Mergers, acquisitions and divestments, Singapore Telecommunications Ltd., Cable & Wireless Optus Ltd., Lee Hsien Yang

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