GTE bought Sprint from Southern Pacific Railroad, then went into a deal with United to form SprintNet, which really was the first form of real communications on what is now the Internet. They operated E-mail systems for companies over their network, links to banking and other sites, a system allowed you to dial a local number or 800 number, then make long distance calls, and allowed computer users to call into the network and go out to a distant system, say a BBS across the country. What the SprintNet did for Sprint was test and refine their system for what it is used today, then then dumped all of their users, I believe Pat used the system. I seem to remember a comment on it years ago. GTE sold its holdings to United. As to Sprints local company, Las Vegas would be the largest of their companies, it was bought by United some years ago. But that might change soon, if the what they say about selling the local wireline companies and just keeping the Cellular and Long distance end of the business. I did a lot of contract work for them in Las Vegas and found it to be an interesting company to work with, but they had too many bean counters at their HQ.
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