Author: California. Legislature. Senate. Committee on Energy and Public UtilitiesPublisher:
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Category : Telephone
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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In the Matter of Telephone Divestiture
Author: California. Legislature. Senate. Committee on Energy and Public UtilitiesPublisher:
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Category : Telephone
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
After the Breakup
Author: Barry G. ColePublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231073226
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
On January 8, 1982, the AT&T divestiture consent decree was announced. A company with $150 billion in assets--more than General Motors, General Electric, U.S. Steel, Eastman Kodak, and Xerox combined--the country's second largest employer with over a million employees, and the nations most widely held security with over three million shareholders, was to be broken up on the first day of 1984. Many economists, government officials, people in the telecommunications industry, and media observers predicted dire consequences for "the best telephone system in the world." Years later, some experts claim the divestiture has been a great success. According to present AT&T Chairman and CEO, Robert Allen, long-distance rates have dropped, local rates have not increased as dramatically as predicted, more households are on the network, other long-distance and equipment companies now effectively compete wit hAT&T, and consumers have received more choices in products, better values, and lower prices. Others are far less positive in their evaluation of divestiture's effects. After the Breakup: Assessing the New Post-AT&T Divestiture Era describes the current state of telecommunications and how the industry has changed in the first decade of divestiture. Drawn from a major project organized by the Center for Telecommunications and Information Studies at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business, this volume offers an objective account of divestiture.
After Divestiture
Author: Sam SimonPublisher: Hall Reference Books
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Disconnecting Bell
Author: Harry M. ShooshanPublisher: Pergamon
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Category : Corporate divestiture
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Teleconsumers and the Future
Author: Samuel A. SimonPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In the Matter of Telephone Service After Divestiture
Author: California. Legislature. Senate. Committee on Energy and Public UtilitiesPublisher:
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Category : Telephone
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
After the Breakup
Author: Robert W. CrandallPublisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815705338
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The U.S. telecommunications industry has undergone dramatic changes in recent years that have touched almost every American home and business. The average American can dial almost anywhere in the world directly, store and forward a message, or transmit a fax in less than a minute; often for less than the real cost of a 500-mile telephone call tweny-five years ago. The combination of telecommunications breakthroughs, competition among new and old carriers, and the AT&T breakup has transformed the telephone industry and provided customers with a new array of equipment and services. Robert W. Crandall examines the effects of the AT&T breakup and weighs the costs and benefits to the residential and business consumer. On balance, he finds that the efficiency gains from opening up the telephone industry have more than offset the possible efficiency losses, which may be caused by the sacrifice of economies of scale and scope or the absence of fully compatible equipment and services. The replacement of regulation with competition has led to greater productivity in the telephone industry, a more efficient rate structure, and lower equipment prices. Crandall traces the telecommunications evolution from its early beginnings as pairs of copper wires up through the historic 1982 decision to divest. He investigates the impact of technological changes, competition, and the advent of divestiture on the quality of service, local and interexchange service rates, productive efficiency, and income distribution. He also focuses on problems that linger after the breakup in the increasingly competitive but highly regulated sector.
Divestiture of AT and T (American Telephone and Telegraph) and the Seperate Subsidiary Requirement
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Category : Corporate divestiture
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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The Rape of Ma Bell
Author: Constantine Raymond KrausPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The detailed and documented story of the unwarranted and almost criminal dismantling of the monopoly that offered the American people the best telephone service in the world. Written by two phone company engineers.
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