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...signs of that technological revolution is the way major corporations and state agencies are literally setting up their own phone companies. By building microwave dish antennas and aiming them at communications satellites, they can legally bypass public phone systems. That significantly cuts into the revenue of AT&T and all other phone companies. Says Gideon Gartner, a telecommunications researcher: "The danger to AT&T of bypass cannot be overestimated...
Metropolitan phone companies are vulnerable to bypassing because so much of their business comes from so few customers. About 24% of the revenues of New York Telephone last year came from just 1% of business customers. All the bypass systems already constructed have drained as much as $32 million in revenues from the AT&T operating companies...
...promise, and the peril, of telephone bypass is typical of the new era in telecommunications. The Bell System, in the end, was done in by the rush of technology. The system's structure could not contain or protect itself against better and cheaper ways of allowing people to reach out and touch someone. Boundaries crumbled between voice and data transmission, between domestic and international calling points, between telex, submarine cable and satellite. What counted was communication between parties, sometimes machines, no matter how or where...
...Harper to Polish intelligence officials and was cut in on a deal under which Hugle allegedly was to get a third of the money paid by the Poles for the theft of U.S. defense secrets (the Poles, however, according to the affidavit, later told Harper they would prefer to bypass Hugle and deal with Harper directly). Attorney Dougherty says that Harper has been "scared to death that Hugle would kill him." Hugle has been charged with nothing; he is testifying before a grand jury in the San Francisco area but has been silent publicly. The other principal in the tale...
Reagan's decision to bypass the Philippines, along with Indonesia and Thailand, on his trip to Japan and South Korea due to begin Nov. 10 was a clear indication that the Administration would like to keep its distance. The White House cited a "particularly demanding" legislative calendar, but few officials were pretending that congressional concerns were the real reason: though most Filipinos are still pro-American, many of them were opposed to the trip on the grounds that it would show U.S. support for Marcos at a critical time. There was also a personal factor: Nancy Reagan firmly opposed...