| reply to Dogfather
Re: Last mile will kill them So are you saying two of the most profitable companies in this country in the past century never made their investment back in rural America. Or are you saying it is not worth investing in all Americans unless you can get a return on your investment in a few quarters or years.
A Brief History: Origins
»www.corp.att.com/history/history1.html
The AT&T Corp., formerly known as the American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, is as old as the telephone itself. The company that became AT&T began in 1875, in an arrangement among inventor Alexander Graham Bell and the two men, Gardiner Hubbard and Thomas Sanders, who agreed to finance his work. Bell was trying to invent a talking telegraph -- a telephone. He succeeded, earning patents in 1876 and 1877.
This is a good read too.
»verizonpathetic.com/historylesson.html
And after all of this the poor phone companies lost money for their investment in rural America. Is that what I am to believe. |
