Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 11 Jun 91 21:11:59 GMT From: Jim Gottlieb Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: One-Stop Bell Shop Reply-To: Jim Gottlieb Message-ID: Organization: Info Connections, West Los Angeles 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 448, Message 8 of 10 Lines: 20 In the latest issue of Bell of Pennsylvania's {Centrex Update}, I read: "On January 1, 1991, Bell Atlantic announced the integration of the sales forces of the Bell Atlantic Telephone Company and Bell Atlanticom Systems, Inc., our Customer Premises Equipment Company. By combining these sales forces, business customers now have a single source for network services and equipment needs..." And sure enough, this newsletter is hawking the sales of a certain key telephone system marketed as "a power packed Centrex enhancement." Umm, can they do this? Wasn't the MFJ executed to prevent this sort of thing? Now maybe I could understand it if this newsletter came from some unregulated side of Bell Atlantic. But it doesn't. This is direct from Bell of Pennsylvania. This sure doesn't seem fair.