This book is the first expose about the Baby Bells. It main story, "Info-scandal" describes how the Bells promised to deploy advanced networks, including the 500 channel, fiber optic, Info Highway services, but instead, most likely kept the money, costing customers an estimated $30 billion. (The original Baby Bells include Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, BellSouth, NYNEX, Pacific Telesis, Southwestern Bell (SBC Comm) and US West.) The Foreword is by Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of "Ethernet", and the founder of 3Com and Infoworld.
About the Author
Bruce Kushnick has been a telecom analyst since the early 1980's. His clients have included AT&T, MCI and Sprint as well as all of the Baby Bells. In 1992 he founded New Networks Institute to investigate on an impartial basis, how the break-up of AT&T and the creation of the Baby Bells impacted subscribers.
Description:
This book is the first expose about the Baby Bells. It main story, "Info-scandal" describes how the Bells promised to deploy advanced networks, including the 500 channel, fiber optic, Info Highway services, but instead, most likely kept the money, costing customers an estimated $30 billion. (The original Baby Bells include Ameritech, Bell Atlantic, BellSouth, NYNEX, Pacific Telesis, Southwestern Bell (SBC Comm) and US West.) The Foreword is by Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of "Ethernet", and the founder of 3Com and Infoworld.
About the Author
Bruce Kushnick has been a telecom analyst since the early 1980's. His clients have included AT&T, MCI and Sprint as well as all of the Baby Bells. In 1992 he founded New Networks Institute to investigate on an impartial basis, how the break-up of AT&T and the creation of the Baby Bells impacted subscribers.