DolganPremium
join:2005-10-01
Sun Prairie, WI | reply to shortckt
Re: What a quaint ripoff! Idiots.
The ILECs do not maintain the leases on the phones. They are maintained by Lucent Technologies. |
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Ummm...Just WHO do you think, owns Lucent? Why, AT&T does.
As memory serves, Lucent evolved from Western Electric, the subsidiary that MADE rotary phones for Ma Bell beck then.
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 Jim GurdPremium
join:2000-07-08
Plymouth, MI | said by Fatal Vector:Ummm...Just WHO do you think, owns Lucent? Why, AT&T does. Not true. AT&T spun off its manufacturing arm to shareholders by creating a separate company called Lucent Technologies. It has its own ticker symbol of LU. The two are no longer connected.
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