Say what ya want about Greene, but he helped protect the workers from some of the hair-brained pipe dreams of management. With divestiture I went through ABI, ATTIS and Lucent before finally landing back at NYTel (then a division of NYNEX.)
“Say what ya want about Greene, but he helped protect the workers from some of the hair-brained pipe dreams of management. “
I liked what Judge Greene did! I paved the way for outside businesses to get into the Fiber-to-the-home business. It’s just that the mindset in the “Bell System” was and is, to this day, that it’s a private fiefdom. When the RBOCs were cut loose, they actually did business with private companies to deliver the first fiber systems to their subscribers. I was involved in one of them. But always in the back ground was AT&T trying to f*ck things up in their attempt to stay in business without any competition for the technology. In the Bell System, nobody wants to be first, and nobody wants to be last, so at least with several of the RBOCs (Bell South was a big one) aggressively looking to launch new technology, there was for a time, a forcing function.