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Well Connected in the States
Well connected in the United States is an investigation into the political influence of the telecommunications industry at the state level.
Tags: telecommunications; lobbying; state government; Public Utility Board; SBC Communications; AT&T Corp.; utilities; FOIA; cable television; political contributions
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The Big Telecom Disconnect
The Wall Street Journal investigates the reasons for the rising prices of telephone and cable services. The story packet finds that five years after the Telecommunications Reform Act was passed in 1996, "business customers have been the only beneficiaries." Among the main findings is that "the Baby bells and the cable-TV operators have the country pretty much to themselves, enjoying lucrative monopolies in most areas."
Tags: technology; Federal Communication Commission; SBC Communications; AT&T Corp.; AOL Time Warner; Verizon communications; Winstar Communications; competition; wireless; long-distance; Internet access
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Padding Profits With Pensions: How companies inflate earnings with market gains from retirement funds
In practice, companies cannot use the money from their employee pension funds; it's intended for employees after they retire. However, as Steffy reports, employee pension funds "have become a significant -- though misleading -- source of reported corporate earnings." Forty-two of the companies on the S&P 500 reported that pension income "boosted pretax earnings by more than 5 percent." Many companies simply list these earnings in their footnotes.
Tags: Verizon; SBC Communications; General Electric Co.; Lucent Technologies
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Phone deregulation has become the 74th Texas Legislature's version of the Lobbyist Employment Act. With billions of dollars at stake, telephone companies concerned over the passage of a 70,000 word, highly complex bill promising to shape the of the telecommunications industry over the next decade are employing hundreds of lobbyists to protect their interests. (May 5, 1995)