[Air-L] Impact of AT&T divestiture on American college and

[NANCY MCDONALD-KNWRTHY]

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 at 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 at listserv.aoir.org
> [air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of John Laprise
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 4:46 PM
> To: air-l at 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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