| From: | Menard Steve <menars@***.UMONTREAL.CA> |
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| Subject: | Re: Telecom industry in 2050's? |
| Date: | Mon, 24 Apr 1995 18:24:24 -0400 |
> Here's an interesting thought -- and since we've got people from
> both AT&T and MCI on the list, it could be interesting. *grin*
> What will the telecommunications industry of the 2050's look like?
> I can clearly see places like the Tir (either one) and some of the NAN
> socializing internal telecom (within their own borders), but what will
> happen to today's biggies like AT&T, MCI, and Sprint? Or even the
> smaller ones, the so-called Baby Bells, et al?
Can you say corporate acquisition? Like most of the other companies
we know today, the companies will likely becomes sub-divisions of a
larger corp. The name may still be the same. And I remember somewhere
where it was said that "ma Bell's systems" were a tough nut to crack. So
the Bell name is still there, maybe a coalition of smaller companies
still holding their ground against the giants?
> At present, MCI and Sprint seem to be doing most of the fiber
> stuff (at least, near where I live), but most of that is T1, and even T3
> can't handle the amount of bandwidth we'd need for The Matrix as described
> in Shadowrun.
Look in history books and see what was telephone technology like 60
years ago. Now imagine 60 years in the future. Now also remember that
fiber-optics are whats used in the 2050's. Read somewhere about that. I
think there was almost a corp war about a device capable of reading optic
dataline without interrupting it.
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