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From: karl@osu-eddie.UUCP (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Screwed twice each month
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Date: Sat, 2-Feb-85 22:38:07 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  2 22:38:07 1985
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> ALSO, the breakup of Bell Telephone has only benifited AT&T and the
> seven dorfs.  If you'll notice your monthy base bill has gone up
> signifigantly.  Before the breakup I paid a base charge of $27 a
> month. Now its $48 a month.
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News flash for you {:-)}:

		The breakup of AT&T was not AT&T's idea.

AT&T was not psyched to be broken up. There was this really nasty court suit
that  went  on  for years. AT&T fought reasonably  hard  against  the  idea.
Whether you care to  describe  the  end result  as  "AT&T lost the fight" is
arguable, based on the outcome of a variety of indirectly-related issues.

I found this really neat  quote  lying around  in  a file the other day, and
it's  particularly  relevant  here. I'm sure most  everyone  has  seen  some
variation on this before, but nonetheless...

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There are in this country two very large monopolies.

The larger of the two has  the  following  record: the Vietnam War, fuel and
energy  shortages, bankrupt airlines and the 22-cent postage stamp.

The second is responsible for such things as the transistor, the solar cell,
lasers,  synthetic  crystals, high fidelity stereo recording,  sound  motion
pictures,  radio  astronomy,  negative  feedback,  magnetic  tape,  magnetic
"bubbles,"  electronic  switching  systems, microwave  radio  and  tv  relay
systems, information theory, the  first electrical digital computer, and the
first communications satellite.

Guess which one is now  going  to  tell the  other  how to run the telephone
business?
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I think we all know the answer...
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Karl Kleinpaste @ Bell Labs, Columbus    614/860-5107  +==-> cbrma!kk
                @ Ohio State University  614/422-0915  osu-eddie!karl