UPDATE 3-SBC sees $5 billion in costs for fiber build
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SBC Communications (SBC.N: Quote, Profile, Research) expects to spend about $5 billion over the next three years to build and connect consumers to a high-speed
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SBC Communications said it will cut DSL prices to just $19.95 a month for people who sign up for its full unlimited local and long-distance phone plans. [Broadband Blog]
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PMC-Sierra, Inc. (Nasdaq:PMCS) today announced that its Fiber to the  Home (FTTH) solution is now deployed in more than four million Gigabit  EPON Optical Network Units (ONUs).
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Japan&#39;s largest telephone company, plans to spend 5 trillion yen ($47 billion) over the next several years to replace its copper data-transmission lines with faster fiber-optic lines, according to
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WASHINGTON--The Federal Communications Commission is keeping and eye on SBC Communications&#39; new connection charge for calls made over the Internet.
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Company is developing a fiber network that will deliver TV and data to homes.
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By Bloomberg, AP and Staff Reports  Qwest Communications International Inc. said Tuesday that it has completed a $107 million cash acquisition of OnFiber Communications Inc., which specializes in building custom fiber optical networks.
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As part of an ongoing race in the cable industry, Time Warner Cable is raising the speed of its broadband Internet offerings to 5 and 8 million bits per second without increasing prices.
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SBC Communications Inc. SBC.N said  on Monday it would offer access to its network of 3,900 public  Wi-Fi Internet access points to its high-speed Internet  subscribers for $1.99 per month.
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By Josh Gelinas< South Carolina Bureau Chief  AIKEN - The county's new cable provider, Atlantic Broadband, shed the  name of its predecessor Tuesday and outlined how it is spending $7 million  to improve television, Internet and phone services in Aiken and its  surrounding communities.
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ATLANTA - BellSouth Corp. and SBC Communications Inc. again are joining forces in an effort to lead the way in Internet-based phone directories, with a planned purchase of www.
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Mayor Kerry Prendergast is going to make broadband a key issue in her re-election campaign. Privately owned telco CityLink says that for $5.5 million, it could build a 53-kilometre suburban network.
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SBC Communications SBC.N on  Wednesday said it reached a 10-year, $400 million deal with  Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O to provide next-generation television  services.
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SBC Communications Inc. on Thursday announced plans to reach 18 million homes with an IP network by the end of 2007 at a cost of $4 billion.
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In its latest move in an ongoing battle with cable companies, SBC Communications today announced a 10-year, $400 million deal to use Microsoft&#39;s (Quote, Chart) IP television platform.
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SBC Communications Inc., the No. 2  U.S. telecommunications company, is in talks to acquire AT&T  Corp. for more than $15 billion to bolster its business with  large corporations, sources familiar with the talks said on  Thursday.
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Iliad, a French telecommunications company, said it planned to build a fiber optic communications network throughout Paris for 1 billion euros. Iliad said development of the network would begin next year and would take five years to complete. Building and owning its own fiber optics network would allow the company to save on renting telephone lines from France TÃ©lÃ©com, Iliad said. It would lease any excess capacity on the network to competitors. ÂDemand for bandwidth is showing no sign of abating,ÂÂ IliadÂs chief executive, Michael Boukobza, said at a news conference. But investors were concerned about the cost, and stock in Iliad, which is based in Paris, fell nearly 12 percent.