[35892] in North American Network Operators' Group
Multiple Roots are "a good thing" - Karl Auerbach (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Sun Mar 18 12:04:31 2001
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
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Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 11:57:44 -0500 (EST)
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Somewhat OT, perhaps, But I can't let this pass:
> It wasn't that many years ago in the United States when there was one big,
> monolithic telephone company.
HorsePucky.
There were in the 80's roughly 1100 independent telcos in the
US. (Can anyone say "REA"?)
There was also GTE & AllTel (who were quietly buying up many of
the 1100...) and don't forget ConTel.
Now? We are far far closer to err.. quad-opoly control of the PSTN
and the last mile than back then.
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