Sunday, February 13, 2005

Mother and Child Reunion

A note on telecommunications history:

AT&T was "Ma Bell" when it was the parent of all the regional phone companies (the "Baby Bells," if you must).

The AT&T that was recently acquired by one of the so-called babies, SBC Communications Corp., was, almost by definition, not Ma Bell.

2 comments:

Bill said...

Exactly.

Paul said...

The worst part about all this was that even in 1987 people needed to be reminded, I recall. Such us life.