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...YORK: In the second-largest corporate merger in history, two more Baby Bells have agreed to join in a deal that would create the nation's second-largest phone company. Bell Atlantic and Nynex announced the $23 billion deal Monday, three weeks after SBC Communications and Pacific Telesis unveiled their merger plans. Both mergers were given the green light after President Clinton signed a sweeping deregulation of the telecommunications industry into law two months ago. "In the aftermath of deregulation, these two large companies are trying to manouver in an exceptional communication and media world," says TIME's Michael Krantz...
...1950s. But on December 21, 1993, Gore gave a speech announcing that "unlike the interstates, the information highways wil be built, paid for, and funded by the private sector...." Coincidentally, on December 21, 1993, the Democratic National Committee received a $50,000 check from MCI, $15,000 from NYNEX, $15,000 from Sprint and $10,000 from U.S. West. Perhaps the Clinton Adminstration's telecommunications policy wasn't written in a conscious attempt to raise funds, but that was undoubtedly its effect...
...admit that the problems with our phone service are not entirely the fault of HSTO. Many of these problems are the fault of the New York New England Exchange (NYNEX), the company to which Harvard has contracted its phone service. Many of the delays in the activation of additional extensions can be attributed to NYNEX's inadequate staffing in the wake of corporate restructuring. But because NYNEX controls the local telephone market, Harvard does not have the option of seeking out a better carrier to whom to contract service. The problem of monopoly makes itself felt at another level...
Perhaps HSTO should try to be tougher on NYNEX, by demanding better and more efficient service. But we recognize that this is easier said than done. In its negotiations with NYNEX, greater Boston's only major local carrier, HSTO is bargaining from a powerless position. As a result, HSTO has no leverage to control the service provided by NYNEX...
What HSTO does have some control over, however, is the quality of its own service. HSTO may not be able to force NYNEX to clean up its act, but it can at least make some changes in its own operations that would greatly improve student telephone service at Harvard...