Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!indri!aplcen!ginosko!uunet!wugate!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: jsol@bu-it.bu.edu Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: The Monopoly of the Telephone Company... Message-ID: Date: 22 Jul 89 21:46:37 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 7 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 252, message 5 of 7 I'm sad to say that I believe the main thrust for divesting AT&T was those moneygrabbers who are the AOS and COCOT maintainers, and hotel ripoff artists, who insist on overcharging for their calls. It is those who have the most to gain from the endeavor, so they were probably much of the force that caused the divestiture itself. --jsol