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"No Impact" from Merger,
Ameritech Library Services Assures Customers

The megamerger between SBC Communications and Ameritech will have "no impact whatsoever on Ameritech Library Services," ALS President Lana Porter told American Libraries May 13, two days after the two telecommunications giants revealed that SBC would acquire Ameritech.

Porter noted, however, that it will probably take until mid-1999 for the deal to be approved by the Federal Communications Commission. Until then, "it's business as usual," she said. Once the deal is final, Ameritech Library Services will remain a subsidiary of Ameritech and "there'd be no reason for us to do away with our brand name," Porter said.

Although Ameritech officials say growth and new opportunities for ALS—already the world's largest library automation vendor—will be the most likely result of the merger, observers maintain that it's too soon to tell what SBC may have in store for a subsidiary that is not a core operation.

Posted May 18, 1998.

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