Internet Search Firms Battle Against Big Wireless Carriers

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SAN JOSE, Calif. - It was 2001, and the nation's No. 2 phone company badly needed to boost its Internet cachet. So SBC Communications made a sweetheart deal with Yahoo. In exchange for a co-branded portal featuring Yahoo e-mail and other services, SBC agreed to pay Yahoo a monthly fee "in perpetuity" for each customer who signed up for online access.

Six years later, SBC is no longer desperate. Now called AT&T, it is the biggest phone company in the United States as well as the biggest wireless carrier.

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Internet Search Firms Battle Against Big Wireless Carriers

And as mobile use of the Internet takes off, AT&T and other wireless carriers are poised to exert tight control over t...

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