From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: paul.winalski@gmail.com (Paul Winalski) Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 13:17:13 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] V7 Addendem [ really lawyers and AT&T consent decree ] In-Reply-To: <201712061849.vB6InBKS031624@darkstar.fourwinds.com> References: <20171206010736.GA16514@minnie.tuhs.org> <1512576671.3978479.1196132360.0C9F95D9@webmail.messagingengine.com> <201712061615.vB6GFKYd013874@darkstar.fourwinds.com> <201712061849.vB6InBKS031624@darkstar.fourwinds.com> Message-ID: On 12/6/17, Jon Steinhart wrote: > > There's another aspect of this that I think that many people misunderstand > which is that Judge Green gave AT&T exactly what they wanted. AT&T knew > that in the future the money was in data and were willing to trade their > monopoly for that business. From their perspective, it worked. For the > rest of us, not so good. Except that the new AT&T, liberated from the regulatory chains of the Bell operating companies, never learned how to compete in the free market. They got their clock cleaned by the competition. In desperation they bought Olivetti and only managed to run it into the ground. -Paul W.