Post 1062

by billso on Wednesday, 23 June 2004

USA: Yahoo! News — AT&T Won’t Seek New Cus­tomers in 7 States: “AT&T said it would no longer offer the ser­vices, as a bun­dle or indi­vid­u­ally, to new res­i­den­tial cus­tomers in Ohio, Mis­souri, Wash­ing­ton, Ten­nessee, Louisiana, Arkansas and New Hamp­shire, where almost 38 mil­lion Amer­i­cans live. It will con­tinue to sell those ser­vices to busi­ness cus­tomers and cur­rent res­i­den­tial cus­tomers. The com­pany also said it was review­ing its res­i­den­tial busi­ness in the 39 other states where it offers local tele­phone ser­vice. ‘The abil­ity to bun­dle local and long-distance ser­vices has become an essen­tial aspect of com­pe­ti­tion in the long-distance mar­ket,’ said AT&T spokes­woman Clau­dia Jones. ‘AT&T and other com­peti­tors will not be able to effec­tively com­pete in the res­i­den­tial long-distance mar­ket with­out a viable local product.’ ”

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