Following Judge Greene’s ruling in September that they could become intermediaries on behalf of electronic information providers, all seven of the regional phone companies spun off from AT&T have been rushing around trying to cut deals with the likes of Compuserve, reports the Wall Street Journal: at present database services are primarly the province of business, but the Bells see an enormous potential market in delivering information to the fireside market; some deals are more down to earth however – the Journal reports that Ameritech is taking to local water companies about using the phone lines to collect the data from water meters.
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