Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: William Degnan Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Telephone Companies in the US Besides the RBOCs Message-ID: <2654@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 6 Jan 90 01:05:00 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 26 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 10, message 12 of 13 In an article of <3 Jan 90 11:29:39 GMT>, munnari!batserver.cs.uq.oz.au! anthony@uunet.uu.net (Anthony Lee) writes: >Wonder if anyone could post a summary of all the major telephone >companies in the US besides the RBOCs. Particularly Nynex (sp??), Well NYNEX is the holding company that owns to BOCs: New York Telephone (NY) and New England Telephone (NE). The "X" part may stand for Xtra money? Or, X as in cross connection? >I read recently that Nynex have made a deal with Telecom Australia. >Anyone know more about the deal ? This isn't the deal where they going to put cellular phones on the kangaroos? :) :) Regards, Bill Disclaimer: Contents do not constitute "advice" unless we are on the clock William Degnan | wdegnan@mcimail.com !wdegnan@at&tmail.com Communications Network Solutions | William.Degnan@telenet.com P.O. Box 9530, Austin, TX 78766 | voice: 512 323-9383