a bit more on MCI plans for local telephony

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

Date: Sun, 2 Jan 1994 18:57:49 -0500
From: rjs@farnsworth.mit.edu (Richard Jay Solomon)




The New York City WU conduits are half owned by Nynex in a holding company
known as the Metropolitan Subway Company. This dates back to Theodore Vail
who formed this company in the 1880s and sold it to AT&T _and_ Western
Union, which is how he got to become President of AT&T and merge WU into
the Bell System. But then the Justice Department forced a divestiture of WU
in 1913. Vail got to keep 50% of Metropolitan Subway under the New York
Telephone umbrella. I wonder how MCI is going to get along with its new
partner in the local distribution business.