SBC in Deal With Microsoft to Provide TV on High-Speed Lines
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SBC Communications will pay $400 million to Microsoft for software used to deliver TV programming over high-speed data lines.
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SBC is teaming up with Microsoft to provide consumers with a new way to view television -- a move that puts it in direct competition with the cable TV industry.
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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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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- SBC Communications on Wednesday became the second major local phone carrier to unveil plans to offer cable-like television services.
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NEW YORK, November 17  - SBC Communications Inc (SBC.NYS) announced an agreement with Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) today, under which the US-based telecom giant will provider IP-based TV services based on Microsoft&#39;s IP television
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SBC Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. will build fiber-optic networks for carrying video more quickly after US regulators said they won&#39;t force the phone companies to share the equipment with competitors.
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SBC Communications, which teamed up with Sunnyvale&#39;s Yahoo in 2001 to market its DSL fast Internet service, says it now plans to collaborate with the dot-com to offer advanced online services via mobile phones, wireless Internet and television.
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SBC may well capitalize on AT&T's name, ready cash and long distance network.
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SBC Communications Inc.  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 &#36;1.99 per month.
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TELEVISION has been something of a great white whale for the Microsoft Corporation. The company has tried to sell WebTV and build software for TV&#39;s and cable boxes.
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Automaker Ford Motor Co. has signed a new contract with San Antonio-based SBC Communications Inc. for the deployment of an advanced Internet protocol (IP) telephony network at Ford facilities in Michigan, the telecommunications firm said Tuesday.
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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.ADVERTISEMENTSolaris 10(TM) OS: Position your business ten moves ahead.Solaris 10 OS has arrived and provides even more reasons for the world's most demanding businesses to operate on this, the leading UNIX platform. Like the fact you can run Linux and Solaris applications side-by-side and run the same OS on SPARC(R), AMD Opteron(TM), and Intel processor-based systems. Discover more reasons and how Solaris 10 OS can move your business ahead today.
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SBC Communications  will pay Microsoft Corp.  at least &#36;400 million over 10 years for technology to help SBC sell video services over its upgraded broadband lines, the companies said Wednesday.
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Sprint and SBC Communications have reached an agreement under which their Wi-Fi customers will be able to use both companies&#39; wireless hot spots.
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SBC Communications today became the second major local phone carrier to unveil plans to offer cable-like television services. Earlier, the company said it agreed to use new technology by Microsoft for delivering
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SBC Communications Inc., one of the nation&#39;s largest telephone companies, introduced Wi-Fi service for business and residential DSL customers, giving them access to 3,900 hot-spots for $1.
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According to The Register, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, code-named Symphony, will support high definition television. Microsoft refuses to confirm the Register's report at this time.