Incorrect. There are dozens of LD carriers and national networks now in place that would have never been built without the breakup and regulation. Now that cable companies are being allowed into the phone companies business the phone companies should be able to merge back together to get the marketshare they will need to compete against monsters like Comcast. Ideally there should be 1-2 phone and 1-2 cable companies nationwide. This would give the marketshare necessary to keep competitive pricing nationwide.
Incorrect. There are dozens of LD carriers and national networks now in place that would have never been built without the breakup and regulation. Now that cable companies are being allowed into the phone companies business the phone companies should be able to merge back together to get the marketshare they will need to compete against monsters like Comcast. Ideally there should be 1-2 phone and 1-2 cable companies nationwide. This would give the marketshare necessary to keep competitive pricing nationwide.
This still has to get by the federal regulators. It will make for a massive company if it goes through, though.
The same size of Verizon with the same revenue and then those two will merge and then the telco and Cable co will also merge into one giant telecom called: WeOwnUco
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Way back when AT&T split up into separate long distance, cellular, and cable TV companies, I predicted that the company would eventually disappear. ATT Broadband has been bought by Comcast, ATT Wireless by Cingular, and now ATT long distance is about to get gobbled.
Ma Bell is "the phone company" no longer.
Ma Bell is "the phone company" no longer.
your forgot Lucent, which used to be bell labs.
most of you probably don't remember, but when i was growing up, in science class, all our science books always showed bell labs and nasa as being at the cutting edge of every new discovery.
bell labs and nass was as close as we will ever get in this country to a nationally funded think tank.
science for the sake of science is more progessive than science for profit.
And as an aside, Bell Labs developed DSL in the 1980's and shelved it because the product would have eaten away at their data service revenues.
thats an interesting fact
one of my buddy's dad used to work in the r and d department for ATT, everynow and then he would tell us about some of the projects they were working on. they have some amazing technology, that's still never hit the streets
exactly.
the OP says SBC + AT&T = EVIL, but i'm not sure. if we can get one major Corporate entity and then subsidize it with govt funds in order to get something like the Bell Labs of the 70's back, i'm not sure that's such a bad thing.
science for the sake of science has advantages. look at the history of science, most of it happened serendipidously. you are studying one thing and VOILA you discover something else. this type of thing is much less likely to be pursued by FOR PROFIT labs.
the OP says SBC + AT&T = EVIL, but i'm not sure. if we can get one major Corporate entity and then subsidize it with govt funds in order to get something like the Bell Labs of the 70's back, i'm not sure that's such a bad thing.
science for the sake of science has advantages. look at the history of science, most of it happened serendipidously. you are studying one thing and VOILA you discover something else. this type of thing is much less likely to be pursued by FOR PROFIT labs.
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