What Goes Around
Over on the right-hand side, the diagram is a little sketchy on what happened between the U S WEST and QWEST eras. Also, it reads as though there was an entity called "U S WEST" which then acquired Mountain Bell and the two Northwestern Bells, rather than the reality which was that USW was a merger of those three spun off as a separate company after AT&T's divestiture.
Years ago, I remember being at educational sessions at USW where we would talk about the company's strategy in the face of the many changes going on in the telecom business. Those geniuses had it all figured out that we would be one of the last few standing. And darned if they weren't right, in a sense.
(But maybe not so much on the "genius" thing, really.)
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