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From: lfd@lcuxlq.att.com (Leland F Derbenwick)
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Subject: Re: A Sprint Employee Comments About ATT and Divestiture
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Date: 26 Sep 90 21:25:58 GMT
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In article <12474@accuvax.nwu.edu>, eli@pws.bull.com (Steve Elias)
writes:

> Comments from a person who works for Sprint.

> 1) Most important: ATT can combine long distance and equipment.
> NOBODY ELSE CAN to that extent because nobody else owned a company
> like Western Electric.  [ ... ]

Does the "person who works for Sprint" not remember "GTE Sprint"?

It's quite true, of course, that Sprint never owned a company that
manufactured switching equipment and such, or that had a monopoly on
local telephone service anywhere.

They were owned _by_ one, instead.

Speaking strictly for myself,

Lee Derbenwick, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Warren, NJ
lfd@cbnewsm.ATT.COM  or  <wherever>!att!cbnewsm!lfd