AT and T Divestiture: Restructuring the U.S. Domestic Telephone Industry
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On January 8, 1982, the Justice Department and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company announced the settlement of the Government's seven year old antitrust suit against AT&T. Nineteen months later, in August 1983, U.S. District Court Judge Harold Greene gave final approval to the AT& T divestiture agreement. The breakup of AT&T will affect every aspect of the U.S. domestic telephone industry from the yellow pages to the manufacture of telephones. AT&T officially spun off its 22 local oper…
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Date:
August 10, 1984
Creator:
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
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