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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 05:03 PM Original message |
Remember when Ma Bell had to "break up" because she was too big? |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 05:09 PM Response to Original message |
1. You could start by forbidding some companies from operating in more than |
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Andy823 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 05:27 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. I think it's to late. |
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elifino (331 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 05:21 PM Response to Original message |
2. A few months ago AT&T re-acquired Bellsouth |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 05:23 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. AT&T has owed me $15.61 for 6 months now..since I canceled their service |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 05:36 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. That's what happened to me. |
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onenote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 06:27 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. the old Ma Bell has been largely rebuilt, but its not exactly accurate to say ATT re-acquired |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 05:37 PM Response to Original message |
6. Standard Oil too - don't forget it. That's how we got Exxon and Chevron, and others. |
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Gman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 06:18 PM Response to Original message |
7. No one should be using AT&T's "eBill" |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 08:27 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. And kill another tree? |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 07:50 PM Response to Original message |
9. Correct..no company shoudl be allowed toget so big that the country "Cannot afford" for it to die. |
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slipslidingaway (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 08:25 PM Response to Original message |
10. "Remember when" Sure do... |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 08:29 PM Response to Original message |
12. And remember what happened right after the Bell breakup? |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 08:34 PM Response to Original message |
13. What's a sumpster? Do they make something that resembles a hamburger too? |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 08:35 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. oopsie... have I told you lately, what a bad typist I am?? |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Dec-08-08 08:52 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. LOL, I have no room for speech on the subject. |
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judasdisney (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-09-08 04:15 AM Response to Original message |
16. The Sherman Anti-trust Act |
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sunnystarr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-09-08 01:54 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. I looked and found familar players ... |
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judasdisney (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-10-08 02:22 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Yes, the Greenspan ideal is monopoly plutocracy |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-10-08 02:43 AM Response to Original message |
19. but capitalism is a pyramid scheme. |
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hfojvt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-10-08 03:11 AM Response to Original message |
20. ATT chose to break up |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-10-08 03:20 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. AT&T itself was purchased too by Texas' SBC. n/t |
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Scooter24 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-10-08 03:39 AM Response to Original message |
22. Bell was broken because it had an extreme monopoly, |
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