Re:Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O.
by mcguire on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @06:59PM
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"Under Theodore N. Vail from 1907, AT&T had [...] acquired many of the independents, and bought control of Western Union, giving it a monopolistic position in both telephone and telegraph communication. A key strategy was to refuse to connect its long distance network — technologically, by far the finest and most extensive in the land — with local independent carriers. Without the prospect of long distance services, the market position of many independents became untenable. Vail stated that there should be "one policy, one system [AT&T's] and universal service, no collection of separate companies could give the public the service that [the] Bell... system could give.""
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsbury_Commitment