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Here's a good article from this weeks Industry Standard magazine on AT&T:
http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,18798,00.html
September 25, 2000, 6:25 AM PDT
Ma Bell's Future Is on the Line
After trying cable, wireless and local phone service, AT&T's Michael
Armstrong still searches for a winning strategy.
By Jason Krause
It's taken only 20 years, four chief executives, innumerable spinoffs and
divestitures, and lots of government meddling, but AT&T (T) , the former
U.S. phone monopoly, has come undone. Investors have grown tired of waiting
for the company's ballyhooed cable acquisitions to pay off, while its core
phone and business services look more old-economy by the day. Embattled CEO
Michael Armstrong may yet pull a rabbit out of his hat, but one thing is
certain: The old phone company is dead....
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JW
"When you come to a fork in the road - take it" - Yogi Berra
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