Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Wed, 29 May 91 19:35:11 CDT From: "Roy M. Silvernail" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Old Phone Museum Being Cranked Up Message-ID: Organization: Villa CyberSpace, Minneapolis, MN Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu 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 411, Message 5 of 12 Lines: 23 kentrox!bud@uunet.uu.net (Bud Couch) writes: > Pacific Telecom also bought out the old RCA Alascom system, and is > "The Phone Company" in Alaska. One of the biggest, if I remember right. (and if I don't, Floyd will be happy to correct me :-) A couple years ago, Anchorage's mayor wanted to sell the local phone company, and there turned out to be only one bidder ... Pacific Telecom. There was quite a rucus, and the issue was forced to a ballot, where it lost the required margin (60%) but won the popular margin at just over 50%. One of the biggest points made by the opposition was that Pacific Telecom would own some 80% of the state's phone business, if it were to buy the Anchorage Telephone Utility. I used to have a list of the companies owned, but it's fallen into that tame black hole I use for a filing cabinet. Roy M. Silvernail roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu roy@cybrspc.uucp(maybe!)