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NormanM
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:32:55 -0400, Tim Slattery wrote:
> "Whistleblower" wrote:
>>BEWARE OF and AVOID doing business with AT&T!
>>
>>AT&T exemplifies screw-the-consumer corporate arrogance at its worst.
>>DO NOT PATRONIZE AT&T or YOU'LL REGRET IT!
> What's now called AT&T is actually Southwestern Bell. They bought what
> was left of AT&T a few years ago and renamed their company.
>
> SWB has a long history of screw-the-customer practices. I have no
> doubt that everything you say is true.
A. SWBT is one of the RBOCs resulting from the divestiture of the AT&T ILEC
business in 1984.
B. SWBT re-branded itself as, "SBC".
C. As "SBC", the company bought two of its sister RBOCs (Ameritech and The
Pacific Telesis Group) along with an independent regional ILEC (Southern
New England Telephone), and an ISP (Prodigy).
After all of that, did SBC buy AT&T. And re-brand itself one more time as,
"AT&T". And finally bought the last of its sister RBOCs, Bellsouth.
Even after AT&T was broken up in 1984, management of the RBOCs was old
school AT&T. And the Ernestine model of the business is still practiced at
all three of the remaining "Baby Bells" (AT&T (re-branded SBC), Qwest, and
Verizon): "We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Telephone Company!"
--
Norman
~Shine, bright morning light,
~now in the air the spring is coming.
~Sweet, blowing wind,
~singing down the hills and valleys.
> "Whistleblower" wrote:
>>BEWARE OF and AVOID doing business with AT&T!
>>
>>AT&T exemplifies screw-the-consumer corporate arrogance at its worst.
>>DO NOT PATRONIZE AT&T or YOU'LL REGRET IT!
> What's now called AT&T is actually Southwestern Bell. They bought what
> was left of AT&T a few years ago and renamed their company.
>
> SWB has a long history of screw-the-customer practices. I have no
> doubt that everything you say is true.
A. SWBT is one of the RBOCs resulting from the divestiture of the AT&T ILEC
business in 1984.
B. SWBT re-branded itself as, "SBC".
C. As "SBC", the company bought two of its sister RBOCs (Ameritech and The
Pacific Telesis Group) along with an independent regional ILEC (Southern
New England Telephone), and an ISP (Prodigy).
After all of that, did SBC buy AT&T. And re-brand itself one more time as,
"AT&T". And finally bought the last of its sister RBOCs, Bellsouth.
Even after AT&T was broken up in 1984, management of the RBOCs was old
school AT&T. And the Ernestine model of the business is still practiced at
all three of the remaining "Baby Bells" (AT&T (re-branded SBC), Qwest, and
Verizon): "We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Telephone Company!"
--
Norman
~Shine, bright morning light,
~now in the air the spring is coming.
~Sweet, blowing wind,
~singing down the hills and valleys.