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a bit more on MCI plans for local telephony
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 1994 05:57:46 -0500
Date: Sun, 2 Jan 1994 18:57:49 -0500 From: rjs () farnsworth mit edu (Richard Jay Solomon) The New York City WU conduits are half owned by Nynex in a holding company known as the Metropolitan Subway Company. This dates back to Theodore Vail who formed this company in the 1880s and sold it to AT&T _and_ Western Union, which is how he got to become President of AT&T and merge WU into the Bell System. But then the Justice Department forced a divestiture of WU in 1913. Vail got to keep 50% of Metropolitan Subway under the New York Telephone umbrella. I wonder how MCI is going to get along with its new partner in the local distribution business.
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