AT&T; Corp. is in merger talks with SBC Communications Inc., the Texas-based Baby Bell that holds a near-monopoly over local phone service in California and the Southwest, according to a published ...

SBC Communications must sell local phone and broadband services separately in California, state regulators have ruled, forcing a showdown with the telecom giant over forced bundling practices in ...

Nearly 100,000 unionized SBC Communications Inc. workers began a four-day strike early Friday to protest the local-phone giant's latest contract offer. After a late-evening shift answering ...

SBC Communications on Wednesday accused rival MCI of using dirty tricks to swipe its local telephone customers. In several cases, SBC said MCI telemarketers told customers that SBC was "going out ...