Telcos put the pieces together

As GTE announces its latest Internet service, Baby Bells and telco competitors continue their communications face-off in the ongoing struggle for market share.

GTE rolls slowly into the Net The firm introduces a new offering in its consumer Internet strategy, a free Web-based email service in conjunction with the New York-based iName. SBC to expand Net in California Chairman Ed Whitacre plans to expand the company's existing high-speed Internet service in California in 1999. Bell Atlantic makes long distance play The Baby Bell files with New Jersey state regulators for permission to enter the state's long distance telephone markets. MCI WorldCom wraps new Net package MCI WorldCom rolls out new evidence that its acquisition binge is adding up to something more than just the sum of its expensive parts.