BrianDamage
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| reply to VinnyJ
Re: AT&T will be dissolved
Let me detail some history here.
AT&T Corp. will never go away. One reason the name along is the best known WORLD WIDE in telecom.
AT&T is not the same company it was prior to divestiture. Yes, the name is well known, but that is based on what people remember before the breakup. It is like calling a cotton swab a "Q-Tip" or a finger bandage a "Band-Aid"...it is what people remember, but not entirely accurate representation of the truth. They are proper names, that are easily remembered and referenced in a conversation.
AT&T has the power to reach every telephone in the world, no one else can claim that.
So could Worldcom or many other phone companies that offer local service. One does not have to own all the facilities globally in order to get a call through to anywhere in the world.
AT&T is the only company that has the ability to replace, within 24 hours with mobile trucks and swtiches, an entire central office, as they did for the first time in their entire history on 9-11.
That was Verizon that did that, not AT&T. Additionally, the former company that was the incumbent prior to merger upon merger was Nynex. They hadn't been AT&T since divestiture, which was 1984.
Nice AT&T plug, though, but AT&T is a shadow of it's former self, and continues the name recognition based on the 125 year long legacy of the phone business. That doesn't make the popular perception these days accurate, though.
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