Talk:Bell System divestiture

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I'd like to see a chart somewhere with all of the other divestures and mergers. The Comcast deal, Lucent and all of the other deals that went with it. Anyone know of a good site to track all of that?

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[edit] Merger

Maybe this page should merge with Regional Bell Operating Company and keep the name Bell System Divesture.--85.130.153.231 05:09, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] FCC regulation of Internet in 1982?

"In 1982 the FCC declared that Internet service providers would be treated as if they were local and would not have to pay these access charges. This led to VoIP service providers arguing that they did not have to pay access charges - resulting in significant savings for VoIP calls."

Is this correct? The date seems way too early. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.105.136.180 (talk) 19:04, 4 January 2007 (UTC).

I was about to note the same thing, but I see you beat me to it. Although the Internet (or its precursors) certainly existed then, I don't think there were ISP's per se, and doubt even more that the FCC was giving much thought to regulating them.

[edit] CLECs

The local telecommunications market has remained essentially a monopoly, with the incidental and short lived appearance of competitive telephone companies (CLECs) after the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Funny, nobody seems to have told Comcast and RCN that. 121a0012 17:13, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Plain English Please!

I'm not a business major and there are many words here that I don't understand. (I'm assuming, perhaps wrongly, that many others do not.) Would someone consider "dumbing things down" a bit?

Some passages/words that I would like to see a more layman's term for are: divestiture, In this way, the implicit subsidies of Ma Bell became explicit post divestiture, sought to arbitrage the network and avoid these fees, VoIP, largest (nominal) block tradeMoonrythm (talk) 00:41, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Effects section

The Effects section needs some work. I made some corrections to the punctuation (remember the difference between its and it's), but I don't know enough about the subject to make more substantive changes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MattCox78 (talk • contribs) 03:42, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] external links

Legal Battle with Bell South over Domain Names this link is irrelevant to the article —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.93.62.36 (talk) 06:32, 4 May 2008 (UTC)