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The election rules were another outgrowth of the 1984 Bell breakup. At that time, the Justice Department ruled that AT&T would stay in the long-distance business, where it had previously controlled more than 95% of the market, while the seven regional companies, dubbed Baby Bells, managed local telephone...
; Equal access was intended to change that. On behalf of the long-distance carriers, the regional Bells mailed ballots to customers formerly in the old Bell System, giving them an average of 30 days to mark and return them. Depending on the services contending in any area, customers may have...
One clear advantage that AT&T has enjoyed is its elaborately detailed profiles of virtually every telephone customer in the U.S., amassed during decades of monopoly service. Possession of those records allowed AT&T to adjust its campaign pitch more finely, and at lower cost, than could its rivals, who...
Listen! The London air is sweet with jubilation. Few cars this day, and no Klaxons in the central part of town. Just bells pealing gaily and the sound of horses prancing in unison along the Mall. A great fanfare of trumpets arises from Westminster Abbey, and the stirring chords of...
Ever since the breakup of AT&T two years ago, the seven regional phone companies known as Baby Bells have enjoyed an amicable relationship with their onetime parent. Last week it was announced that the kids would gang up for the first time against the former Ma Bell. The Baby...