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After the Breakup: Assessing the New Post-at&t Divestiture Era
Barry Cole (Ed.)
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Description for After the Breakup: Assessing the New Post-at&t Divestiture Era
Hardback. Editor(s): Cole, Barry G. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 48. Weight in Grams: 862.
On January 8, 1982, the AT&T divestiture consent decree was announced. A company with $150 billion in assets--more than General Motors, General Electric, U.S. Steel, Eastman Kodak, and Xerox combined--the country's second largest employer with over a million employees, and the nations most widely held security with over three million shareholders, was to be broken up on the first day of 1984. Many economists, government officials, people in the telecommunications industry, and media observers predicted dire consequences for "the best telephone system in the world." Years later, some experts claim the divestiture has been a great success. According to ... Read more
On January 8, 1982, the AT&T divestiture consent decree was announced. A company with $150 billion in assets--more than General Motors, General Electric, U.S. Steel, Eastman Kodak, and Xerox combined--the country's second largest employer with over a million employees, and the nations most widely held security with over three million shareholders, was to be broken up on the first day of 1984. Many economists, government officials, people in the telecommunications industry, and media observers predicted dire consequences for "the best telephone system in the world." Years later, some experts claim the divestiture has been a great success. According to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Columbia University Press Dublin, Ireland
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231073226
SKU
V9780231073226
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About Barry Cole (Ed.)
Barry G. Cole is Visiting Director of the Center for Telecommunications and Information Studies at the Columbia Business School, and Adjunct Professor at the Annenburg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania. He has served as founding Deputy Direct of the Annenberg School's Washington Program as well as a consultant to two FCC chairmen, the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications, ... Read more
Reviews for After the Breakup: Assessing the New Post-at&t Divestiture Era
[After the Breakup] represents the best source of information, by top experts, reviewing the events in U.S. telecommunications during the 1980s... It is, by definition, an important volume. Anyone interested in this field... will have to read this book.
Paul Teske, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Paul Teske, State University of New York, Stony Brook