Business Today SBC Communications Inc. on April 3 reduced its long-distance calling rates for consumers to a flat monthly rate in an attempt to ward off competition and retain customers. SBC, the No.

Just months after a surprise ruling that SBC Communications failed a critical legal test to offer in-state long-distance, the California Public Utilities Commission took a major step toward reversing ...

Federal regulators Monday unanimously approved SBC Communications Inc.'s application to provide long- distance telephone service in Oklahoma and Kansas. Although five Federal Communications ...

WASHINGTON -- SBC Communications Inc. on Monday won federal approval to offer long-distance phone service to consumers in Kansas and Oklahoma, becoming the first local phone company born from the 1984 ...

Local phone provider SBC Communications Inc. has applied for federal permission to enter long-distance markets in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin. The Federal Communications Commission has 90 ...

With a telephone call to Guanajuato, Mexico, SBC Communications rang in its launch Friday of long distance service in Illinois. From SBC's Consumer Call Center in Rock Island, Hugo Huerrera of Casa ...

SPRINGFIELD -- The local phone company is about to go long-distance. SBC Communications -- the Texas-based telecommunications company that acquired Ameritech in 1999 -- won approval from the Federal ...

LaValle Telephone Co-op customers using SBC Wisconsin for their long distance telephone service will have to choose another provider shortly. SBC Wisconsin has filed an application with the Public ...

A single phone call to the governor of Guanajuato, Mexico, Friday morning marked the beginning of SBC Communications Inc.'s effort to sell long-distance service in Illinois. ``While it's a great day ...