If you've never seen The President's Analyst, try to find it someplace. It's an hysterical dark comedy with James Coburn as yoga-practicing, pot-smoking psychotherapist who is tapped to be the president's listening post -- and winds up being stalked by The Phone Company (TPC).
AT&T is on my shit list right now, to the extent that I am changing my service -- it seems that under the government-approved pricing system they now have, a local call is not necessarily a local call any more -- you can call the same area code and be charged for long-distance.
See this post by Pachacutec at Firedoglake on the telecom industry in general.
Scum.
(A Footnote: I see a trend with my phone service similar to what I saw with my bank: AT&T bought SBC, which had bought Illinois Bell -- and as the company got bigger, the service got worse and more expensive.)
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And don't many of us remember when the original AT&T was broken up because it was becoming a monopoly, thus creating the many "Baby Bells" that SBC/AT&T have been buying up like rabid bargain-hunters in Filene's basement?
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