The war of the wires.(impact of Internet usage on US Baby Bell companies)
Economist (US), The, May, 1996
The Baby Bells are complaining that they have to bear the costs of heavy Internet usage, but they are exaggerating the extent of the problem. Only about 1.5 million users do not use an intermediary, such as America Online. Telephony technology is also discussed.
WINTER 1997: on a snowy afternoon in New York city, an elderly grandmother feels sick and reaches for the telephone to call an ambulance, but there is no dialtone. She had always paid her telephone bills on time, just to ensure that help was at hand. Now the telephone system has let her down--all because a few dozen Internet junkies on her street are hogging all the available telephone circuits.
This is the nightmare that America's local telephone companies, or "Baby Bells", are quietly describing to any...
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