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Re: Dropping AT&T
For what it's worth, the AT&T of today ("The New AT&T") is actually accumulated fractions that had been blown off of the Really Old AT&T — the original Ma Bell — in the decision that broke the old lady up in 1983. What calls itself AT&T today used to be SBC, for Southwest Bell. One of the original seven "baby bells", Southwest Bell ate three of the others — Pacific Telesis, Ameritech and BellSouth — before finally eating what was left of AT&T (the company you dropped ten years ago), giving it the right to call itself "AT&T", even though it really wasn't. Some people call it "fATT", for "faux AT&T." Between Ed Whiteacre's remarks and this latest commitment to value subtraction , the New fATT is no less worthy of droppage than the Old AT&T was ten years ago.
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