Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: langz@asylum.sf.ca.us (Lang Zerner) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Ameritech Dissolves Bell Boards of Directors Message-ID: Date: 28 Oct 89 03:23:52 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: langz@asylum.UUCP (Lang Zerner) Organization: The Great Escape, Inc Lines: 30 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 476, message 10 of 10 In article telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) writes: >X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 475, message 1 of 8 >In an effort to streamline decisionmaking, the directors of Ameritech >dissolved the boards of directors of the five Bell operating companies >...the Bell companies are wholly owned subsidiaries of Ameritech Wow! I never knew this. Ameritech owns every basic service provider in the country? Why isn't this in violation of antitrust laws? How is it any different than before, when AT&T had a big "monopoly" (I hope there's *some* difference!). Be seeing you... Lang Zerner langz@asylum.sf.ca.us UUCP:bionet!asylum!langz ARPA:langz@athena.mit.edu "...and every morning we had to go and LICK the road clean with our TONGUES!" [Moderator's Note: Ameritech does NOT 'own every basic service provider in the country.' They own FIVE telephone companies in the midwest part of the United States. In the past, AT&T owned almost two dozen telcos across the country operating under the 'Bell' name. And at the time of divestiture, no one said *how* AT&T had to go about divesting itself; just that it had to. In other words, AT&T could have created one large company called "Bell Telephone", and as long as it was separated from AT&T it would have met the requirements of the decree, although it is likely such a new entity soon would itself have been sued for anti-trust violations. GTE owns more telephone operating companies than Ameritech, or for that matter, any of the other newly formed holding companies previously part of AT&T. PT]