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While Harvard students have been involved with divestiture from South Africa in recent weeks by April 20 they will have so deal with a divestiture clear to home that of American Telephone and Telegraph from its regional divisions...
...result of a federal antitrust action in 1982, the monopoly American Telephone & Telegraph Co. enjoys over long distance service is being replaced by a policy the Federal Communications Commission calls "Equal Access." Under this policy, all long distance firms (MCI and Sprint are among the better known) will have access to the same equipment and services from independent local telephone operating companies (like New England Telephone). The consumer, in turn, will be able to choose which firm will carry his call after he picks up the receiver and dials "I". The policy is gradually being implemented across the country, until...
Lawmakers are particularly eager to pry open Japan's $20 billion telecommunications market. In the past two months, Administration officials have stepped up negotiations with Tokyo to win greater access to that market. The talks have been in anticipation of the gradual conversion of giant Nippon Telegraph & Telephone from a government monopoly to a private company, a change that begins this week. So far, though, Washington's representatives have been frustrated by what they consider to be Japanese reluctance to grant freer trade, and have made no more than modest progress. Said one top negotiator: "Substantial differences remain...
Critics quickly labeled Lord Bridge's report a whitewash. Noting that the report was commissioned and completed in only six days, the Daily Telegraph ridiculed it as "the bench's answer to fast food: a juridical...
From its start in 1851, Western Union built a reputation as America's fastest and trustiest messenger. The company constructed the first transcontinental telegraph line in 1861, introduced telex messages in 1958, created Mailgram service in 1970 and began operating the first domestic satellite communications system, Westar, in 1974. But now Western Union's electronic pulse is barely perceptible. The company said last week that it lost $58.4 million in 1984 on sales of $1.1 billion. Coming on top of a $59 million deficit in 1983, the news fanned speculation that Western Union may be unable to survive. "Its future...