Pacific Bell, long a stalwart California name, now is just one more discarded logo for trivia buffs after its parent company scrapped the names of all its operating units Tuesday in favor of ...

Long distance may be the next best thing to being there, but a West Palm Beach grandfather doesn't think the phone company should charge him when nobody is there. Kazmir Siedlecki, 65, lugged a ...

Pacific Bell won a crucial endorsement Thursday in its six-year battle to enter California's $11.5 billion long-distance market, a move that could shake up the country's largest telecommunications ...

AT&T -- itself the product of recent mergers among Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell, Cingular and the venerable Bell long-distance business -- agreed to pay $67 billion for BellSouth.

Bell Atlantic Corp. will unveil its new long-distance service in New York on Tuesday, despite a legal challenge to that plan.New York-based Bell Atlantic last month became the first so-called Baby ...

State regulators are reconsidering a head-scratching ruling last month that endorsed Pacific Bell's federal application to offer interstate long- distance service, but fell short of state ...

Think of it as a MetroCard for rides on Bell Atlantic's long distance telephone network. SmartTouch - a new service announced yesterday by the phone company - lets consumers pay in advance for ...