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From United States v. American Tel. (1983): > The threat to competition that is claimed to be posed by AT&T in this industry is that, through the use of cross-
by smoldesu 3y ago
From United States v. American Tel. (1983):
> The threat to competition that is claimed to be posed by AT&T in this industry is that, through the use of cross-subsidization and customer discrimination, it will use its power in the interexchange market to disadvantage competing electronic publishers. While the possibility of cross-subsidization is as remote here as it is with respect to other subjects considered herein, there is a real danger that AT&T will use its control of the interexchange network to undermine competing publishing ventures.
Sounds familiar, I wonder how things ended for Ma Bell?
- dylan604 3y ago> I wonder how things ended for Ma Bell? For a while, they were broken up into the baby bells. Then, one baby bell started buying up all of the other baby bells and renamed itself ATT. Clearly, that's a totally different company than AT&T. So, ultimately, nothing.
- smoldesu 3y agoFrom a less misanthropic perspective, we avoided the immediate outcome of a direct monopoly and have an undeniably more robust telecommunications infrastructure because of it. If we get an AT&T-style placation out of Apple, I'd consider ourselves lucky.
- abhibeckert 3y agoMa Bell, at it's peak, was arguably biggest company in the entire world. The new comglomerate of "baby bells" isn't even the biggest Telco provider in the USA, let alone the biggest company in the USA... let alone the biggest in the world.