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Re: High Speed Internet over Fiber Optic...faster than DSL...

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From: Dirk A. Loedding
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 13:19
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In article <c37bgu86ih0olimjdvk573ghd8cshfsl7c@4ax.com>,
Peter Alerich <alerich@bellsouth.net> wrote:

>Had the Judge Greene, the FCC and the DOJ not broken up AT&T I suspect
>that telecommunications today would be quite a bit more advanced than
>what we have available now. When divestiture killed Bell Laboratories

It did no such thing.  Bell Labs is still going strong.  More of their 
research is towards marketable products and technology, and not just 
research for the sake of research, but that's the case most 
everywhere, and has nothing to do with the breaking up of AT&T. 

>ever think they'll top the stupidity of 01/01/84.

I don't know about you, but I *much* prefer paying 3.5 cents a minute 
to paying 50 cents a minute (or more) for long-distance.  

-- 
Thought for the day:

Oxymoron:  Too many cartoons.

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