Comcast Unveils Plans Phone Service Plans
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The nation's biggest cable company said it plans to roll out phone service nationally within the next year and a half in its bid to become the primary alternative to local phone companies such as Verizon Communications. -The Washington Post
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Company pursuing different wholesale access rates to its local phone network for Net phone providers.
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Verizon Communications, the nation&#39;s largest regional phone company, announced plans yesterday to start introducing fiber-optic connections for residential phone and data services in six Eastern states.
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Verizon recently announced plans to roll out its new wireless BroadbandAccess service in 14 American cities, with more to follow.
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Verizon Communications Inc. and Montgomery County officials said yesterday that they have reached a tentative agreement that could allow the telecommunications giant to sell its new fiber-optic cable television service in an area heavily dominated by Comcast Cable Communications Inc.
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In another sign of growing competition between the cable and phone industries, cable-TV giant Comcast on Monday announced plans to roll out Internet-based telephone service in all its markets nationwide over the next two years.
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Cable companies aren't known as nimble innovators, but Comcast Corp. is out to change that perception this year with ultra-high-speed Internet service, more high-definition content and gadgets that link video, phone and broadband services.
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Comcast Corp. on Monday said it plans to launch the National Football League Network this month as part of a plan to bolster the operator's video-on-demand offerings.
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As part of joint venture with Hicks Holdings, company will test a Net-based phone service for residents of apartments and condos.
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Company's looking at ways to offer wireless phone service, executives say. The move is targeted at the Baby Bells.
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REDMOND, Washington  - Microsoft Corp. MSFT.O  and cable television provider Comcast Corp. CMCSA.O said on  Monday that they would begin deploying set-top boxes powered by  Microsoft software starting next week.
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By Daniel Connolly danielconnolly@commercialappealcom  Telecommunications firm AT&T is offering a new nationwide calling plan that charges customers a hefty monthly fee in exchange for a package of long-distance calls on land line telephones and cell phones.
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SBC announced consumer tests of its Internet phone service Tuesday in Los Angeles and three other major cities and said it will offer the low-cost, feature-laden plans to all broadband customers in its 13-state territory including California early next year.
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Comcast Corp., the nation's biggest cable company, said yesterday it plans to roll out phone service over the Internet to all 21.5 million of its customers within the next year and a half, bringing the online technology into the mainstream.
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Voice-over-Internet provider VoIP, Inc. says it is in talks with some 70 smaller cable companies to provide them with wholesale Internet or VoIP-based phone service plans.
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Â MCI announced on Wednesday a line of managed LAN services available at three different service levels.
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Plan aims to offer Comcast subscribers a nearly limitless supply of movies and TV shows that can be viewed on demand and through the Internet.