12 Dec
2017
12 Dec
'17
12:17 a.m.
On 12/6/17, Jon Steinhart <jon(a)fourwinds.com> 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.