[UFO Chicago] Bell companies

[jordanb at hafd.org]

Brian Sobolak said:
>
> jordanb at hafd.org wrote:
>>
>> I've done some checking and there are 4 companies left of the RBOCs:
>>
>> AT&T consists of former properties of Ameritech, PacBell, and
>> Southwestern
>> Bell (formerly SBC) plus the long-distance etc. company.
>>
>> BellSouth consists of Southern Bell and South Central Bell
>>
>> Verison constis of Bell Atlantic, NYNEX, and non-Bell companies
>>
>> Quest owns the former assets of US West.
>>
>> In addition, Sprint offers local service but I'm not sure how they got
into it as they didn't eat one of the RBOCs.
>>
>> Cingular is owned 60-40 by AT&T and BellSouth.
>
> So in other words, you were wrong last night and didn't know what you
were talking about?

Yeah but you were wrong about Cingular.

> Sorry, I'm feeling surly these days.

How's OSX been treating ya?

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-- 
Jordan Bettis -- Chicago Il.
  <http://neighborhoods.chicago.il.us>
    Photographs of Life in the Neighborhoods of Chicago
  <http://hafd.org/~jordanb/> Pretentious Weblog