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The US Telco Sprint was spun off from the Southern Pacific railroad - train lines are convenient places to lay fibre trunks
by mjg59 2y ago
The US Telco Sprint was spun off from the Southern Pacific railroad - train lines are convenient places to lay fibre trunks
- hakfoo 2y agoIt would have been interesting to see what happened if it hadn't spun off, suddenly you'd have a huge Fortune 500 telecom where its side business was running a railroad. Would that have kept them afloat as an operation? I've spent the last few decades here watching as their red-and-grey engines disappeared in a sea of yellow.
- fmajid 2y agoSPRINT == Southern Pacific Railroad Internal NeTwork.
- Suppafly 2y agoDidn't the telco part come from a merger with one of the baby bells that emerged when bell was broke up?
- keane 2y agoNo, they were an independent telco before the 1984 breakup. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Bell_Operating_Company#Mergers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Bell_Operating_Compan...