AT&T's Multiple-Choice Test To get into local-phone service, the telecommunications giant could: (A) Buy GTE or Southern New England Telephone. Neither would present the political or financial problems of the aborted SBC deal. (B) Expand its partnerships with ''alternative carriers,'' small companies with local phone networks that compete with Baby Bells. (C) Sacrifice short-term quarterly earnings and speed up its investments in building local-phone systems. This would cause problems on Wall Street but would please federal regulators. (D) All of the above. (E) None of the above. Return to main story

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