10. GigaOm/Bitcurrent
briefing on Cloud
Computing (2008)
InteropCloud
(2009)
The impact of
latency on web
business
(2009)
On the
performance
of clouds
(2010)
Application
Delivery
Networks (2009)
Complete
Web Monitoring
(2009)
WebOps
(2010)
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36. For much of its history, AT&T and its Bell System functioned as
a legally sanctioned, regulated monopoly.
The US accepted this principle, initially in a 1913 agreement
known as the Kingsbury Commitment.
Anti-trust suit filed in 1949 led in 1956 to a consent decree
whereby AT&T agreed to restrict its activities to the regulated
business of the national telephone system and government
work.
Changes in telecommunications led to a U.S. government
antitrust suit in 1974.
In 1982 when AT&T agreed to divest itself of the wholly owned
Bell operating companies that provided local exchange service.
In 1984 Bell was dead. In its place was a new AT&T and seven
regional Bell operating companies (collectively, the RBOCs.)
http://www.corp.att.com/history/history3.html
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