FEATURE
TECHNOCRACY PROFILE: AT&T |
| Industry: Telecommunications Size: 109,000 employees, earnings of $53 billion a year. comparison: Cuba GNP $16.3 billion a year Mission:"We aspire to be the most admired and valuable company in the world. Our goal is to enrich our customers' personal lives and to make their businesses more successful by bringing to market exciting and useful communications services, building shareowner value in the process." Area of Influence: Telephone services and cable services. With the purchase of TCI and MediaOne, AT&T has grown to be not only the largest provider of telephonic services, but also cable services in an effort to control access to the internet. AT&T has called their new effort to control the internet: AT&T Broadband & Internet Services.
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| Threat Level: High It should not be forgotten that AT&T was forced to divest itself of local services because it was declared a monopoly in 1989. In 1995, it found itself in so many markets it broke up into three units: AT&T, Lucent Technologies, and NCR. This hydra has many heads. As it pushes its way into the internet access market, it will clearly dominate. Whenever possible, people should choose services not associated with AT&T to prevent it from getting too powerful. All corporations are part of the technocracy and we are safe from them only when they are fighting each other. AT&T has a significant advantage over its competitors. |