If you can’t beat them, join them: Bell Atlantic Corp is teaming up with Metropolitan Area Network operator Teleport Communications Group Inc to build facilities to provide a high-speed fibre optic ring between New Jersey and New York for business customers: the new facilities will form the Sonet Synchronous Digital Hierarchy OC-48 ring, which will be capable of transmitting data at 2.4Mbps; New Jersey Bell will provide the Sonet ring facilities in New Jersey and connect them with Teleport’s portion of the ring, the firms said.