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Posted by Bill on May 30, 2008, 10:20 am
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>> Right after the divestiture I was working on a paging terminal
>> installed in a Bell CO. There was Bell System blue/yellow stripe tape
>> run across the floors, around racks, up the walls and all over to
>> mark what was whose. The the yellow (or was it blue?) side was the
>> new entity and the other was AT&T.
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> The history of Mountain Bell ("Muttering Machines to Laser Beams")
> tells that they did the taping as well. But it was very hard to do
> since so much of the equipment was in shared service and hard to
> assign to one company or the other. They made arbitrary decisions
> they knew made no sense, but had no choice.
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> Too bad no one back then ever compiled the cost of divesture.
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The true cost of divestiture was in the many jobs that were lost due to
the new environment that was created by the courts in the name of
competition.
The Bell Telephone split was beneficial to the them MCI's of the world.
It also gave legacy telepone companies the ability to venture into other
business lines only to fail (AT&T - Olivetti/NCR).
Not to mention a near collapse of all telephone manufacturing in the US
(WECo with a French accent)!!!
The great consolidation in Telecom as embodied with the remaining
Verizon & the New AT&T empires are a tribute to the final act of
1/1/1984.
Bill
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