Re: [Air-L] Impact of AT&T divestiture on American college and
and isn't it ironic... now Verizon is owner of MCI... and MCI used to be owner of WorldCom, (I'm NOT going to say how much Bernie Ebbers screwed up my retirement before he went to jail)... W-com bought UUnet, which bought Compuserv... and I've worked with ALL of them... including Qwest, which bought LCI (a local Ohio company, originally)... and Lucent, which was the equipment maker of the original AT&T... and then there are all those "baby bells" who when the break-up happened, all were teh "local and regional" telcos (LATAs), while AT&T took the long distance part.. there is so much "incest" in this industry... and there are so many buyouts from so many of the "babies"... buying each other... very hard to keep up!!!! but I loved all the work I did with them all!! (was tech writer and project manager before back to school to research). There is plenty of stuff written about the telecom industry... Nancy McDonald-Kenworthy, GA CSTW Writing Center Tutor www.cstw.org Ohio State University ----- Original Message ----- From: "Heidelberg, Chris" <Chris.Heidelberg@ssa.gov> Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 5:41 pm Subject: Re: [Air-L] Impact of AT&T divestiture on American college and
You are correct John! MCI began making noise with its microwave technology in 1968 and AT&T has actually almost reconstituted itself with the exception of Verizon cities and some Quest locations. The question becomes why did AT&T breakup to reform! I wrote about this in my literature review for my dissertation.
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of John Laprise Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 4:46 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Impact of AT&T divestiture on American college and There is probably information available prior to the scope of your research. The long distance market began to be deregulated in the early 1970's and at that time AT&T's competitors were trying to offer cheaper service provisioned with satellite and microwave links rather that the wirelinelinks offered by AT&T. Later-on dorms were probably considered by carriers to be profit centers. High density living space with tech readyconsumers...easy to wire up, relatively. If you can strike a deal with the university there are no last mile issues...you dig a trench anywhereyou want because the University says its ok.
John Laprise Ph.D. Candidate Media, Technology, and Society School of Communication Northwestern University Evanston, IL USA
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One of the best books is from the Center for Public Integrity. I can't recall the title but it deals with the legislative agenda of the media industry. I will try to find it. I cited it and read it cover to cover. Lots of scandals, crooks, and bribes in the industry and those are the good guys. LOL! -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of NANCY MCDONALD-KNWRTHY Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 11:08 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Impact of AT&T divestiture on American college and and isn't it ironic... now Verizon is owner of MCI... and MCI used to be owner of WorldCom, (I'm NOT going to say how much Bernie Ebbers screwed up my retirement before he went to jail)... W-com bought UUnet, which bought Compuserv... and I've worked with ALL of them... including Qwest, which bought LCI (a local Ohio company, originally)... and Lucent, which was the equipment maker of the original AT&T... and then there are all those "baby bells" who when the break-up happened, all were teh "local and regional" telcos (LATAs), while AT&T took the long distance part.. there is so much "incest" in this industry... and there are so many buyouts from so many of the "babies"... buying each other... very hard to keep up!!!! but I loved all the work I did with them all!! (was tech writer and project manager before back to school to research). There is plenty of stuff written about the telecom industry... Nancy McDonald-Kenworthy, GA CSTW Writing Center Tutor www.cstw.org Ohio State University ----- Original Message ----- From: "Heidelberg, Chris" <Chris.Heidelberg@ssa.gov> Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 5:41 pm Subject: Re: [Air-L] Impact of AT&T divestiture on American college and
You are correct John! MCI began making noise with its microwave technology in 1968 and AT&T has actually almost reconstituted itself with the exception of Verizon cities and some Quest locations. The question becomes why did AT&T breakup to reform! I wrote about this in
my literature review for my dissertation.
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of John Laprise Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 4:46 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Impact of AT&T divestiture on American college and There is probably information available prior to the scope of your
research. The long distance market began to be deregulated in the early 1970's and at that time AT&T's competitors were trying to offer cheaper service provisioned with satellite and microwave links rather that the
wirelinelinks offered by AT&T. Later-on dorms were probably considered
by carriers to be profit centers. High density living space with tech readyconsumers...easy to wire up, relatively. If you can strike a deal
with the university there are no last mile issues...you dig a trench anywhereyou want because the University says its ok.
John Laprise Ph.D. Candidate Media, Technology, and Society School of Communication Northwestern University Evanston, IL USA
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