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Generations have grown up thinking of American Telephone & Telegraph (1982 sales: $65.7 billion) simply as Ma Bell. Last week Federal Judge Harold Greene took away the Bell. Greene ruled that the name as well as the company's blue-and-white telephone logo should belong to A T & T's local phone companies when they split off into seven independent units on Jan. 1, 1984. The judge also decreed that only A T & T's Bell Laboratories and foreign operations could continue using the name...
...moves into telecommunications will put it squarely in competition with American Telephone & Telegraph, now the world's biggest company. An extended battle between the two giants seems inevitable in the area where computers and communications overlap to create the Information Age. Once the separation of A T & T from its regulated telephone units goes into effect next January, the company will be able to use its Bell Laboratories and Western Electric facilities to develop products to compete direct ties to develop products to compete directly with IBM. AT&T through the new American Bell is expected to introduce computers...
Sydney's Sunday Telegraph proclaimed it to be "Australia's D-day-a day aimed at determining our destiny." Even the conservative Australian Financial Review hailed it as "one of the most unusual and hopeful experiments we have ever witnessed in this country." Only five weeks after he won office, Prime Minister Bob Hawke, 53, made good on one of his most daring campaign promises by bringing together leaders of labor, business and government for an unprecedented National Economic Summit Conference. Its purpose: to reach a consensus in solving Australia's chronic economic problems...
Mobile Communications is one of many common carriers that are also applying for cellular radio licenses. The FCC plans to designate two for each city. One of the two everywhere will be a telephone company. A big winner will be American Telephone & Telegraph Co., which pioneered in development of the new technology. AT&T is already serving 2,000 mobile-phone customers with a network covering some 2,100 sq. mi. in a pilot project in Chicago, where regular cellular service will begin in November. The company has been granted licenses to build systems in six other cities: Boston, Buffalo...
This year the number of Americans buying phones is expected to double, to 10 million. With 80 million households now potential customers, more than 100 manufacturers of telephone sets, including such giants as International Telephone & Telegraph and General Telephone & Electronics, are fighting for a share of a new market that is expected to reach $600 million this year and many times more than that by 1986. Says Harold Miller, ITT vice president for telecommunications: "Within the next three years, whether you like the idea now or not, you are going to own your own phone...