SBC, Microsoft strike $400M TV deal
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In 10-year deal, companies to provide IP television services like video on demand, DV recording. NEW YORK  - SBC Communications said Wednesday that it reached a 10-year, $400 million deal with Microsoft
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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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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- SBC Communications said Monday it will offer high-speed wireless access for $2 a month to customers of the company&#39;s DSL Internet service.
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NEW YORK: SBC Communications, the No. 2 US telecoms company, has agreed to pay US$400mil to Microsoft Corp for software that can deliver television via high-speed data lines, the New York Times reported yesterday.
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SBC Communications has announced it is finalizing an agreement that will pay each school $530,000 for the naming rights to the annual Michigan-Ohio State season-ending showdown for the next two years.
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SBC and Microsoft plan to launch an Internet television service in about a year. With IP technology, video, voice, data and other broadband services will be integrated and delivered over a
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SBC Communications Inc. SBC.N plans  to launch television over the Internet with new compression  technology, turning the table on cable companies encroaching on  its phone business, the company's chief operating officer said  on Thursday.
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Akimbo Systems Inc., a startup that plans to deliver video over the Internet to television sets, has signed a deal for mainstream content from Time Warner Inc.'s Turner Broadcasting System.
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CBS and Fox will continue to televise NFL games on Sunday afternoons through the 2011 season. The price tag for the six-year deal: $8 billion, 25 percent and 30 percent higher than the previous eight-year contracts for the two networks.
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Deal to purchase the streaming-media tools developer is valued at nearly $160 million in cash and stock.
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In preparation for offering video service, SBC will spend $4 billion to upgrade its network infrastructure from copper to fiber optics.
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SBC Communications Inc. , the second-largest U.S. regional phone company, is in talks to buy AT&T Corp.  for more than &#36;16 billion, The New York Times reported on Thursday, citing executives close to the negotiations.
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SBC Communications, the No. 2 U.S.  telecommunications company, has agreed to pay $400 million to  Microsoft Corp. for software that can deliver television via  high-speed data lines, The New York Times reported on  Wednesday.
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SPORTS NETWORK - The National Football League agreed to six- year contract extensions worth $8 billion US with CBS and FOX to televise Sunday afternoon games.
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SBC Communications Inc., the  second-largest U.S. regional phone company, is in talks to buy  former parent AT&T Corp. for $15 billion or more, The New York  Times and Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc, Rupert Murdoch&#39;s UK pay-television arm, won an exclusive four- year contract to show live English cricket, cementing its grip on sports programming in Britain.
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Microsoft has turned the channel on its slow-moving television software business by winning a key contract for its new Internet-based TV platform from SBC Communications.