At the time it ensured our country of having a world class phone
system. Well since that time it has slipped a bit.
Regulated public utilities worked well. It limited the ability of
utilities to just raise rates to increase returns, and limited them
to request rate increases when they could prove increased costs.
By the way the AT&T they talked about in the article no longer
exists. The new AT&T is actually one of the baby bells that was
divested in 1984.
Stewart
At 09:48 PM 9/17/2008, you wrote:
This is a good place to start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsbury_Commitment
Telecom has a long and extremely involved history of regulation,
nationalization, reregulation, deregulation, mergers, acquisitions,
divestitures, etc, over more than a century.
Not necessarily in that order.
It is more complicated than the Byzantine Empire and more arcane
than 33rd level Freemasonry. Even the Illuminati, the
Bilderbergers, and the Bene Gesserit put together couldn't
begin to unravel all of the threads.
All your traffic are belong to us.
Just kidding. Well, maybe.
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org
Ozark, AL SL 82
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