After a two-year hiatus, Phone Watch will return this month with regular updates on the telecommunications industry.

Qwest announced on Thursday that new customers in six states could receive deep discounts on its Qwest Home Entertainment bundle of telephone, satellite TV and broadband DSL service, with monthly prices as low as $77.97 for 12 months.

BellSouth announced Monday that it would offer a same-day repair guarantee for its FastAccess Business DSL customers. Under the terms of the new guarantee, business customers who report trouble with their DSL connection by noon and accept the first repair appointment offered are guaranteed a same-day repair.

BellSouth on Monday announced it would lower the price of its FastAccess DSL Xtreme service, which provides up to 3Mbps downstream speed and up to 384Kbps upstream speed, from $42.95 per month to $37.95 per month.

New customers who sign up for SBC Yahoo! DSL between now and December 31 can receive a free $100 Visa gift card.

BellSouth on Monday announced that its 6Mbps DSL service, FastAccess DSL 6.0, is now available to small business customers across its 9-state footprint.

BellSouth on Wednesday announced that it would begin offering high-speed DSL with 6 megabit per second download speeds at $46.95 per month.

BellSouth is giving new FastAccess DSL customers $50 off select HP Pavilion desktop PCs just in time for the holidays.

The Federal Communications Commission on Monday approved the mergers of Verizon with MCI and SBC with AT&T, with only minimal conditions applied to the mergers.

This month’s Wired magazine has a short review of various communications technologies that either kept working or failed miserably after going head-to-head with Hurricane Katrina.