...would create the nation's largest local telephone company. The merger would combine two Baby Bells into a local telephone colossus that would control 57 million phone lines, almost a third of the nation's phone lines spread through 13 states...

...planned takeover of Ameritech. The $60 billion merger, announced in May, would combine two Baby Bells into a local telephone colossus that would cover 13 states and control almost a third of the nation's phone lines. Opponents asked the Federal...

...56.6 billion merger between SBC Communications Inc. and Ameritech Corp., combining two Baby Bells into a local-telephone colossus controlling nearly one-third of the nation's phone lines in 13 states. A factor driving the deals has been...

...merger WASHINGTON - Federal regulators approved the merger of Bell Atlantic and Nynex on Thursday, creating a local telephone colossus with 39 million phone lines from Maine to Virginia. Approval by the Federal Communications Commission had been...