On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 092:55 -0400, Tim Slattery wrote:

> "Whistleblower" <Justice@USA.con> wrote:

>>BEWARE OF and AVOID doing business with AT&T!
>>
>>AT&T exemplifies screw-the-consumer corporate arrogance at its worst.
>>DO NOT PATRONIZE AT&T or YOU'LL REGRET IT!

> What's now called AT&T is actually Southwestern Bell. They bought what
> was left of AT&T a few years ago and renamed their company.
>
> SWB has a long history of screw-the-customer practices. I have no
> doubt that everything you say is true.

A. SWBT is one of the RBOCs resulting from the divestiture of the AT&T ILEC
business in 1984.

B. SWBT re-branded itself as, "SBC".

C. As "SBC", the company bought two of its sister RBOCs (Ameritech and The
Pacific Telesis Group); along with an independent regional ILEC (Southern
New England Telephone), and an ISP (Prodigy).

After all of that, did SBC buy AT&T. And re-brand itself one more time; as,
"AT&T". And finally bought the last of its sister RBOCs, Bellsouth.

Even after AT&T was broken up in 1984, management of the RBOCs was old
school AT&T. And the Ernestine model of the business is still practiced at
all three of the remaining "Baby Bells" (AT&T (re-branded SBC), Qwest, and
Verizon): "We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Telephone Company!"

--
Norman
~Shine, bright morning light,
~now in the air the spring is coming.
~Sweet, blowing wind,
~singing down the hills and valleys.

 

Re: BEWARE - SUCKER!

"NormanM" <spammers.are@immoral.invalid> wrote in message
news:tskiwsszx61c.dlg@on-line.service.invalid...
> On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:29:03 -0400, Mr doe wrote:
>
> > Ps Comshaft dropped Newsgroups a few years back.
>
> As did AT&T.
>
As did Verizon months ago as did MSN.com a few years ago. I got bitten by
both and went to the freebies like aioe.org & eternal-september. Both
provide good service and E-S is how you're reading this now.

BTW: eternal-september has binary groups like alt.binaries.photos.original
so the freebies are catching up.