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.
Are you sure about that? Start by clicking on some of the links.
You should be done reading by say, late October. And I know
you're a fast reader.
Early in my career an older and wiser employee said, "You think
the phone company broke up? You're wrong."
Culturally Verizon/Nynex/Bell Atlantic/GTE/MCI and SBC/Bell
South/Ameritech/AT&T/Pacific Telesis, and Qwest are basically
all Bell System components.
Except that now they all play in all arenas as far as transport is
concerned. Equipment and R&D are still separate but convergence
is inevitable.
We are heading in the direction of what we had before all of the
regulation.
I'm going to get in trouble for saying that.
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