Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: John Higdon Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: A Sprint Employee Comments About ATT and Divestiture Message-ID: <12515@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 24 Sep 90 03:41:33 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 26 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 673, Message 3 of 9 On Sep 23 at 18:57, Steve Elias quotes "Deep Throat": > The deal of the consent decree (the deal of the century) ended up with > ATT taking the most profitable parts of Ma Bell (Long Lines and > equipment) and dropping the least profitable (RBOCs). And now the post divestiture RBOCs are racking up profits that are postively embarassing. Take a look at Pacific Telesis' quarterly report sometime. And if that wasn't enough, the MFJ (assuming the above) tilted the playing field in favor of the RBOCs. No competition in LATA calls, "FCC Mandated Access Charge (money for nothing; chicks for free)", the ability to charge extra for nearly every aspect of providing exchange service, etc., etc., are now the give-away perks of a guaranteed rate of return. And as the final (what on earth could be next?) stroke, the attitude that RBOCs no longer need any supervision. State PUCs are saying, "Now just be good and play by the rules (that you made up), and we will stop looking over your shoulder." If AT&T could have pulled all of this off when they were the phone company, there really would have been an new world order. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@bovine.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !