Telephone industry diversification: Leanring from Contel
Robert Ratonyi
(Head of his own Atlanta‐based consulting firm, Focus Associates, Inc. Contel and Comsat are discussing a merger.)
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Abstract
The deregulation of the telephone industry and the breakbup of AT&T has unleashed monumental changes affecting investors, competitors, vendors, and virtually every telephone user in this country. The seven new Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) created by the break up of AT&T in 1984 will have an enormous impact on the future of the telecommunication industry and the whole U.S. economy (see Exhibit 1).
Citation
Ratonyi, R. (1986), "Telephone industry diversification: Leanring from Contel", Planning Review, Vol. 14 No. 6, pp. 12-35. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb054165
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1986, MCB UP Limited