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Article #620196Re: Important US technology companies sold to foreigners (was: Xerox company sold)
From: pechter William Pechter
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2018 20:23
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2018 20:23
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In article <p54v67$21sc$1...@gal.iecc.com>, John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote: >In article <8qtb7d5n9t5h883cc...@4ax.com>, >J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>The action was done over time by AT&T's own management. >> >>AT&T's management did not destroy Bell Labs. It was destroyed by the >>lawyers who forced the breakup of AT&T. > >AT&T could have divested Western Electric and kept the operating >companies and Bell Labs, but made the spectacularly wrong prediction >that there'd be more money in long distance than in POTS. > > > > >-- >Regards, >John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", >Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly Absolutely, that's a bad strategic call thinking that Long Distance would continue as the corporate cash call in the future and not seeing the local loop and modems/networks/video services as the future. They should've negotiated a government funded transition to fiber to the home and the could've transitioned the country to a new Bell System. We're getting close to having less cable/phone/internet suppliers than there were operating Baby Bells. Bill Bill
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