Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Western Union Revisited Message-ID: Date: 23 Feb 91 01:06:30 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Organization: I.E.C.C. Lines: 23 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 153, Message 9 of 13 Originator: telecom@delta.eecs.nwu.edu In article Pat writes: > They still have their money order and cash wire-transfer business as > well as the telex/twx part of the operation. Last July, at the same time that WUT Co sold Easylink to AT&T, they announced that they were also selling them their Telex service, though not the other enhanced services such as Mailgrams. Does anyone know whether the WUT domestic telex service has in fact passed to AT&T? I hope so, anything would be better than the cruddy service that Western Union has provided in recent years. When AT&T ran the TWX (now Telex II) network it worked well. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {spdcc|ima|world}!iecc!johnl [Moderator's Note: Oddly enough, it was a court decision many years ago which forced AT&T to sell the TWX business to Western Union. For many years, TWX was offered in direct competition to Telex. PAT]