AT&T
T-MOBILE
&
DEJA VU
ALL OVER AGAIN
WILLIAM G. McGOWAN
THE "MAN WHO BEAT AT&T"
Featured in the July 14, 1980
issue of FORTUNE Magazine
Photographed by Gwendolyn Stewart
Comes the news that AT&T has cut a deal with Deutsche Telekom to buy T-Mobile, subject to regulatory approval. Then, once again, an entity known as AT&T will be the largest telephone company in the US of A. True, it will not immediately occupy the monopoly position that the "old" AT&T did before William McGowan of MCI took on the communications Goliath. And the original AT&T did get broken up, and this is about a brave new world of "smart" phones, and there is already opposition (and no, T-Mobile subscribers will not get iPhones, at least, not any time soon), but still: to see this circle come full around again....
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