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> I wonder how things ended for Ma Bell?

For a while, they were broken up into the baby bells. Then, one baby bell started buying up all of the other baby bells and renamed itself ATT. Clearly, that's a totally different company than AT&T. So, ultimately, nothing.

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From a less misanthropic perspective, we avoided the immediate outcome of a direct monopoly and have an undeniably more robust telecommunications infrastructure because of it. If we get an AT&T-style placation out of Apple, I'd consider ourselves lucky.

Ma Bell, at it's peak, was arguably biggest company in the entire world.

The new comglomerate of "baby bells" isn't even the biggest Telco provider in the USA, let alone the biggest company in the USA... let alone the biggest in the world.

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