RISE OF THE STUPID NETWORK - by David S. Isenberg
The Rise of the Stupid Network was originally written during a single long weekend in May 1997 by David S. Isenberg while he was an employee of AT&T Labs Research. It was officially released onto the Internet by AT&T in June 1997. … Isenberg left AT&T in January 1998. Shortly after that, AT&T asked Isenberg to remove The Rise of the Stupid Network from the isen.com website. Isenberg wanted to make AT&T happy so he took it off. (It didn’t work; AT&T is still not happy.)
This is an excellent article from an insider at the phone company, and details a lot about how the phone companies operate (and/or stagnate, as the “market” allows), and brings up many points about why net neutrality is vitally necessary (even though it obviously predates the current controversy).
It does get a little technical, which I’m sure will mean that most (if not all) of the people reading this post will not read the entire article. Of course, that’s probably exactly why net neutrality (and the internet as we know it) is likely to eventually be defeated, but in spite of that, I think it’s important to mention anyway.
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Scott Adams the creator of Dilbert stated that his material, characters and story lines came from his time at PacBell, then changed to SBC then and finally at&t. Dilbert is really, I think, a view into big telecom.
He still gets info from his former workmates to use in dilbert.
Many of the problems in telecom come from being highly regulated by the federal government.
Judge Green — et al.