Posted by : Anonymous on May 15, 2004 - 02:25 PM General

Communications Inc. president William Daley has resigned and the company named Forrest Miller, currently corporate planning group president, to replace him.The telecommunications company offered no explanation for the abrupt personnel changes in its brief statement.
Miller's title will be Group President-External Affairs and Planning and he will report to SBC chairman and chief executive Edward Whitacre Jr. The group will combine the company's public affairs and planning units
``We appreciate Bill's efforts on behalf of SBC and wish him well,'' Whitacre said.

SBC, the nation's No. 2 local-phone company, has been struggling in the face of vigorous competition from smaller telecom providers.

Daley, a former official in the Clinton Administration, is the brother of Richard Daley, the longtime mayor of Chicago, a position his father also held.

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