From: krewat@kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat)
Subject: [TUHS] V7 Addendem [ really lawyers and AT&T consent decree ]
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 18:26:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4fc40e6-33d5-cf3c-2773-6edcc61e5336@kilonet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <07C431DE-4AB4-4180-8C65-3D58589E83A1@cheswick.com>
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On 12/11/2017 3:11 PM, William Cheswick wrote:
> While I am no fan of how AT&T ran its business, and the diminution of
> Bell Labs is
> a capital crime to humanity, it must be noted that AT&T was competing
> with MCI, who
> was cooking the books. “How can they offer phone calls for
> $0.01/minute?” The answer:
> they couldn’t, but did anyway.
>
As I recall, MCI was also passing calls into Canada, routing them back
to the US and avoiding all sorts of fees. They were doing it to the US
Govt, I'm not sure if they did that to regular people.
art .k
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-11 23:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-06 0:33 [TUHS] V7 Addendem Warner Losh
2017-12-06 1:07 ` Warren Toomey
2017-12-06 16:11 ` Random832
2017-12-06 16:15 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-12-06 18:39 ` Clem Cole
2017-12-06 18:49 ` [TUHS] V7 Addendem [ really lawyers and AT&T consent decree ] Jon Steinhart
2017-12-06 18:53 ` Warner Losh
2017-12-06 18:58 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-12-06 18:54 ` Clem Cole
2017-12-06 19:20 ` William Pechter
2017-12-07 14:26 ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-06 19:23 ` William Corcoran
2017-12-06 20:30 ` Kurt H Maier
2017-12-06 23:59 ` George Michaelson
2017-12-07 14:03 ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-07 15:34 ` William Corcoran
2017-12-07 5:08 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-12-07 15:09 ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-11 18:17 ` Paul Winalski
2017-12-11 18:39 ` Clem Cole
2017-12-12 0:27 ` Steve Johnson
2017-12-12 1:05 ` [TUHS] V7 Addendem [ really lawyers and AT&T consent decree ] [ and besides it's "Addendum" ] Jon Steinhart
2017-12-12 1:45 ` [TUHS] MERT? Larry McVoy
2017-12-12 2:09 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-12-13 17:09 ` [TUHS] V7 Addendem [ really lawyers and AT&T consent decree ] Jason Stevens
2017-12-13 17:05 ` Jason Stevens
2017-12-11 20:11 ` William Cheswick
2017-12-11 23:26 ` Arthur Krewat [this message]
2017-12-11 19:23 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-12 16:04 ` Random832
2017-12-12 1:28 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-12 1:42 ` George Michaelson
2017-12-12 2:04 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-12 2:17 ` George Michaelson
2017-12-12 13:59 Noel Chiappa
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