A side note. I saved from the dumpster a plan for AT&T self divestiture composed internally so that they could do computers (they invented a PC in 1969) and breakup logically. If it was accepted over FIGHT, FIGHT, we would be 30 years ahead and still have the old Bell Labs.https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1187099651993825280 …
This would have stopped the anti-trust path and allow AT&T to transition out of a public utility and monopoly, a place they did not want to be but formed by corrupt political elements of the 1930s-1950s. No money really was needed, put that in the bank—they just needed to listen.
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But at that time, computers were still a relatively small, seemingly speculative market. You would have been going up against a deeply entrenched power structure. What I am asking is what were the opportunities that their intransigence create once the breakup was imposed?
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Indeed, great point. The video phone for example failed not because of technology but because of the legal grounds of the PUC laws. We had that in the early 1960s and could not be subsidized like an iPhone is today. The innovation was massive at the company they were barred.
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