Clevelanders file FCC complaint accusing AT&T of denying high-speed internet access to poor neighborhoods [telecom]

Just to show some contrast, below is a link to an advertisement AT&T proudly placed in LIFE magazine some 65 years ago. Back then, the old Bell System was proud of its community service.(LIFE 4/7/1952)

(you may scroll through the rest of the issue.)

Readers please note that the "old" AT&T is *NOT* the same company which currently operates under the "AT&T" trademark.

Bill Horne Moderator

_Not_ the same, but close: the current AT&T includes the old AT&T Long Lines, as well as Southwestern Bell, Illinois Bell, Indiana Bell, Michigan Bell, Wisconsin Bell, Ohio Bell?, Southern Bell, South Central Bell, Pacific Tel, and Nevada Tel. In fact, the current AT&T includes all of the old AT&T except for the AT&T companies that became Verizon (NY Tel, NJ Tel, C&P Tel, and NE Tel) and the AT&T companies that became US West and are now part of Centurylink (Mountain States Tel, Northwestern Bell and Pacific Northwest Bell).

The vast majority of the "old" AT&T is part of the "new" AT&T, although the internal structure is, obviously, very different. Of course, AT&T's Bell Labs and Western Electric have been tossed and turned in other directions (Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent), as has Bell Labs' Central Services Organization (which was BellCore, then Bell Communications Research Inc. (Bicker, Inc), Telcordia, and most recently iConnectiv, an Ericsson subsidiary).