[Asterisk-biz] anti trust law against cisco , good for the industry.

[Alex Pui]

I guess the wisdom here is : if att was never broken up and it is still a
monopoly of our voice business, there will be no cell phone in this world,
as att will be so powerful to direct the whole world voice communication in
the way it likes, if we think cell phone is a nice thing to have, then we
should try to understand what would we lose if we let such one like Cisco or
Microsoft to be the monopoly of business.

Alex

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[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Adrian Chapman
Sent: April 26, 2005 12:34 PM
To: rehan at supertec.com; Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] anti trust law against cisco ,good for the
industry.

Rehan Ahmed AllahWala - Super Technologies I wrote:

> A very experienced telecom company chairman last claimed to me that if att
would not 
> have been broken into the baby bells, today we would not have cell phones.

Without wanting to comment on the wisdom or otherwise of the 
Cisco/Sipura deal, and without being a vast expert on AT&T...

How, exactly, could AT&T have prevented cellphones taking off?

I mean, they were only ever in the US, and there's a hell of a lot of 
the rest of the world out there - most of which the US is desperately 
trying to play catch-up with on mobiles. GSM. 3G.

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Adrian Chapman
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