From comments on FB group Bell Telephone..<\/p>\n
Ed Vaughn said:<\/p>\n
That story makes me ill. Why break what was perhaps the best-run machine in the world?
\nI replied:<\/p>\n
Why? Well, it wasn’t the first time AT&T was forced to comply with government’s decisions. Like you said, it was a machine, and whether or not it was run well wasn’t the problem. The problem was technology marched ahead, but AT&T was stuck with 30 year amortization of equipment that was obsolete after 5 years. MCI ran rings around Ma Bell, charging less than a nickel a minute for long distance when AT&T was charging a dime.<\/p>\n
To me, AT&T was a pioneer in research, but too old and stodgy – not progressive enough – in the use of their research and patents. Many experts believe that had things remained the same, we would never have advanced technologically to the point we’re at today.<\/p>\n
The deed was done and there’s no going back. The breakup benefitted the consumer in many ways. The same thing happened to Standard Oil. It will happen again some day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From comments on FB group Bell Telephone.. Ed Vaughn said: That story makes me ill. Why break what was perhaps the best-run machine in the world? I replied: Why? Well, it wasn’t the first time AT&T was forced to comply with government’s decisions. Like you said, it was a machine, and whether or not it <\/p>\n (Read More…)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,163,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-off-topic","category-politics","category-telephone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12493,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12492\/revisions\/12493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}