12 Dec
2017
12 Dec
'17
5:26 a.m.
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